Overview
The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by lookalike Robert Fuller a year after Horton had decided to leave the series. The series was inspired by the 1950 film Wagon Master directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr. and Ward Bond, and harkens back to the early widescreen wagon train epic The Big Trail starring John Wayne and featuring Bond in his first major screen appearance playing a supporting role. Horton's buckskin outfit as the scout in the first season of the television series resembles Wayne's, who also played the wagon train's scout in the earlier film.
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Episodes - Season 1
 
                                        Episode 1: The Willy Moran Story
Sep 18, 1957
Willy Moran, a drunk, is hired by a wagon as a driver. He is an army buddy of the Major, but is used as a fall guy by a member of the train who wants ...
 
                                        Episode 2: The Jean LeBec Story
Sep 25, 1957
The train cannot get supplies after a member kills the son of the man who owns most of St. Joseph in self-defense. He escapes with the help of Flint b...
 
                                        Episode 3: The John Cameron Story
Oct 02, 1957
John Cameron, from Philadelphia, heads west with his wife to start a new life. Her flirtatious ways may get the better of her when three trappers come...
 
                                        Episode 4: The Ruth Owens Story
Oct 09, 1957
Ruth Owens remarries and is moving west with her new husband. When her brother comes looking for her, he stirs up trouble for her about her past and h...
 
                                        Episode 5: The Les Rand Story
Oct 16, 1957
Les Rand, just released from prison for murder, goes back home to kill the man he held responsible; his father, the doctor. Meanwhile, Flint is there ...
 
                                        Episode 6: The Nels Stack Story
Oct 23, 1957
A pacifist since the war, Nels Stack stands up to any man prejudiced against another. When his own beliefs are tested in the face of an impending Indi...
 
                                        Episode 7: The Emily Rossiter Story
Oct 30, 1957
Emily Rossiter had a young daughter to care for. She met and married someone she felt she could trust. When she found out this was misplaced, getting ...
 
                                        Episode 8: The John Darro Story
Nov 06, 1957
When the train picks up an abandoned drunk on the trail, he exposes John Darro to be the reviled coward John Thurman who abandoned a previous train du...
 
                                        Episode 9: The Charles Avery Story
Nov 13, 1957
Lieutenant Avery has a mission. Deliver a peace treaty and the chief's daughter. But he has a secret vendetta that may jeopardize everyone's...
 
                                        Episode 10: The Mary Halstead Story
Nov 20, 1957
Mary Halstead is in search of a son she gave up a long time ago. With months to live, she comes west on the trail of someone who could be her son, but...
 
                                        Episode 11: The Zeke Thomas Story
Nov 27, 1957
The wagon train stops in a newly built town to get water they had always been able to get before for free. Wanting money now, and at a steep price, ha...
 
                                        Episode 12: The Riley Gratton Story
Dec 04, 1957
Riley Gratton has always drifted from here to there, a smooth tongue getting him whatever he needed. When he tries to do the same with some folks on t...
 
                                        Episode 13: The Clara Beauchamp Story
Dec 11, 1957
When a new officer and troops kill an Indian brave and the post commander's drunken bored wife insults the Chief, Flint is forced to act as a neu...
 
                                        Episode 14: The Julie Gage Story
Dec 18, 1957
A head strong Julie Gage is determined to ride her wagon to California. Losing her pa to fever, many suitors step up to help but she'll have none...
 
                                        Episode 15: The Cliff Grundy Story
Dec 25, 1957
Mortally wounded in a buffalo stampede, Cliff Grundy's friend Flint stays when the wagon train leaves. Manson says he will help but his reasons f...
 
                                        Episode 16: The Luke O'Malley Story
Jan 01, 1958
Luke O'Malley is running from an outlaw who said he would kill him for turning him into the law. Since he won't believe he didn't do it...
 
                                        Episode 17: The Jesse Cowan Story
Jan 08, 1958
The Cowans and Beals have been feuding a long time. Bob and Jesse return from the war and find their family dead and the Beals have joined a wagon tra...
 
                                        Episode 18: The Gabe Carswell Story
Jan 15, 1958
Gabe Carswell wants his son to join the whites because of what he sees coming for the Indians. When his son refuses he takes him to the wagon train he...
 
                                        Episode 19: The Honorable Don Charlie Story
Jan 22, 1958
Don Charlie is a gambler and womanizer and makes no excuses for it. When he meets a woman who wants to marry him there may be trouble because the Majo...
 
                                        Episode 20: The Dora Gray Story
Jan 29, 1958
Dora Gray has made some poor choices in her life. Just wanting to get to San Francisco, her latest one involves someone who sells army guns to the Ind...
 
                                        Episode 21: The Annie MacGregor Story
Feb 05, 1958
The MacGregor clan decides to come to America and start a new life. The wagon trains going to California have had a hard time dealing with their diffe...
 
                                        Episode 22: The Bill Tawnee Story
Feb 12, 1958
Bill Tawnee served his country heroically. When Major Adams recognizes him on the trail and sees he is unable to wake, he asks his wife to join his wa...
 
                                        Episode 23: The Mark Hanford Story
Feb 26, 1958
Jack Hanford built his wealth to give his son. He turns it all down to honor his Cheyenne heritage when his mother dies. To make matters worse in his ...
 
                                        Episode 24: The Bernal Sierra Story
Mar 12, 1958
Revolutionary Bernal Sierra joins the train finding the wife of his dead friend married to Casey Reardon who sold guns to the Mexican revolutionaries....
 
                                        Episode 25: The Marie Dupree Story
Mar 19, 1958
A beautiful woman riding with the train likes flirting. When she gets mixed up with the wrong man, she strings along a boy on the train in order to ma...
 
                                        Episode 26: A Man Called Horse
Mar 26, 1958
Horse, a name he comes to be called, is searching for himself. Since he doesn't feel that he found it in Boston, where he grew up, he tries out w...
 
                                        Episode 27: The Sarah Drummond Story
Apr 02, 1958
During a storm, Flint takes shelter at a farmhouse. He soon discovers the husband is refusing his wife the care of a midwife and before it's too ...
 
                                        Episode 28: The Sally Potter Story
Apr 09, 1958
Sally Potter hitches a ride on the wagon train but being pretty helps and hurts her. Someone she knew catches up to the train and wants to remind her ...
 
                                        Episode 29: The Daniel Barrister Story
Apr 16, 1958
Faith is tested when a man's wife is injured and he refuses medical aid. When Flint rides to the nearest town to get a doctor, he finds they have...
 
                                        Episode 30: The Major Adams Story (1)
Apr 23, 1958
During the Civil War Charlie Wooster joins Bill Hawks under the command of Major Seth Adams. When Adams is seriously wounded saving Hawks's life ...
 
                                        Episode 31: The Major Adams Story (2)
Apr 30, 1958
Years after the Civil War, Major Adams gets a second chance with his lost love Ranie, who had married in his absence. But happiness doesn't alway...
 
                                        Episode 32: The Charles Maury Story
May 07, 1958
Disguised as Yank soldiers, a band of confederate marauders blend into the wagon train, planning on robbing everyone. They are at first stopped but a ...
 
                                        Episode 33: The Dan Hogan Story
May 14, 1958
In a growing town, Seth meets a friend from his distant past. He remembers how they met and the circumstances bringing them west. When his friend'...
 
                                        Episode 34: The Ruttledge Munroe Story
May 21, 1958
Ruttledge Munroe joins the wagon train on the trail. It's noticed right off his odd sense of humor but when he saves the major's life, it is...
 
                                        Episode 35: The Rex Montana Story
May 28, 1958
On one final push to the west, a wild west showman runs into some old friends. Some that were part of a massacre that almost cost them their lives and...
 
                                        Episode 36: The Cassie Tanner Story
Jun 04, 1958
Trail hardened Cassie Tanner joins the train, and sets her eye on Major Adams. But the train desperately needs horses, and she may be the only one who...
 
                                        Episode 37: The John Wilbot Story
Jun 11, 1958
Tensions are running high in the train between northerners and southerners traveling west. As trouble escalates one passenger with a noticeable limp, ...
 
                                        Episode 38: The Monty Britton Story
Jun 18, 1958
Low on water, Flint scouts for more. When three water holes are dry or poisoned, Fort Paiute seems their only hope but he has to make it back to the w...
 
                                        Episode 39: The Sacramento Story
Jun 25, 1958
At the end of a long journey, lives were lost. Some made it with their dreams intact. Flint tries to help two of the passengers with theirs and almost...
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