Episode
Wagon Train: The Rex Montana Story
Overview
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 one man his sanity.
Details
- Series
- Wagon Train
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 35
- Air date
- 1958-05-28
- Runtime
- 50 min
Episode context
The Rex Montana Story is Episode 35 in Season 1 of Wagon Train. It aired on 1958-05-28. The runtime is 50 min.
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Episode 34: The Ruttledge Munroe Story
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 forgotten until he kills someone else and the real reason he joined up is revealed.
Episode 36: The Cassie Tanner Story
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 can make the dangerous journey to buy them.
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Episode 37: The John Wilbot Story
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Episode 32: The Charles Maury Story
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 member of the train helps the man in charge when she discovers the truth to his identity.
Episode 38: The Monty Britton Story
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 wagon train on foot and the only other man who knows the way is believed to be a deserter.
Episode 31: The Major Adams Story (2)
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 always come easy, as a sinister rival and a dark secret attest.
Episode 39: The Sacramento Story
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Episode 30: The Major Adams Story (1)
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 he must struggle to survive, while dreaming of the girl he left behind.
Episode 29: The Daniel Barrister Story
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 their own problems: a smallpox epidemic.
Episode 28: The Sally Potter Story
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 of who she is and where she came from, possibly ruining what she wants for her future.
Episode 27: The Sarah Drummond Story
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 late for her he needs to find out why.