
Bob and Jesse return from the war and find their family dead and the Beals have joined a wagon train. The Cowans and Beals have been feuding a long time. Since he won't believe he didn't do it, he takes his two kids and joins Adams' wagon train disguised as a parsons, who doesn't act like one. Luke O'Malley is running from an outlaw who said he would kill him for turning him into the law. Manson says he will help but his reasons for staying become clear as Cliff keeps saying he has a goldmine somewhere and he's recovering. Mortally wounded in a buffalo stampede, Cliff Grundy's friend Flint stays when the wagon train leaves. Losing her pa to fever, many suitors step up to help but she'll have none of it until one comes down with fever himself and she's the only one who will tend to him.

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 neutral agent between the Army and Indians and save the wagon train.Ī head strong Julie Gage is determined to ride her wagon to California. When he tries to do the same with some folks on the Major's wagon train, what comes next may be the least of his worries. Riley Gratton has always drifted from here to there, a smooth tongue getting him whatever he needed. Sending Flint also uncovers a wife of a passenger thought dead. Wanting money now, and at a steep price, has the Major upset. The wagon train stops in a newly built town to get water they had always been able to get before for free. With months to live, she comes west on the trail of someone who could be her son, but he may also turn out to be a notorious outlaw. Mary Halstead is in search of a son she gave up a long time ago. But he has a secret vendetta that may jeopardize everyone's hope for peace. Deliver a peace treaty and the chief's daughter. Darro's young son Tommy is unable to cope with the truth. 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 during a massacre. When she found out this was misplaced, getting the daughter away from him and into a better life becomes her main goal. She met and married someone she felt she could trust. When his own beliefs are tested in the face of an impending Indian attack against the wagon train, he has to decide who he is going to defend.Įmily Rossiter had a young daughter to care for.

Les vows that no one will stand in his way.Ī pacifist since the war, Nels Stack stands up to any man prejudiced against another. Meanwhile, Flint is there to fetch the doctor to help someone injured. Les Rand, just released from prison for murder, goes back home to kill the man he held responsible his father, the doctor. When her brother comes looking for her, he stirs up trouble for her about her past and himself because he just killed a man. Ruth Owens remarries and is moving west with her new husband. Her flirtatious ways may get the better of her when three trappers come into camp offering fresh buffalo and thinking she might be more available than she is.

John Cameron, from Philadelphia, heads west with his wife to start a new life. He escapes with the help of Flint but when he learns the train is still being denied supplies he returns to face hanging. The train cannot get supplies after a member kills the son of the man who owns most of St. When the battle starts, Willy uses his army skills to turn the battle. He is an army buddy of the Major, but is used as a fall guy by a member of the train who wants to rob it. Willy Moran, a drunk, is hired by a wagon as a driver.
