Episode
Wagon Train: The Flint McCullough Story
Overview
Flint, in love with a Mormon girl he can't marry, joins the confederate army. When he finds out that he won't be joining any battles and what their real purpose is, it may be too late for him and the girl he loves.
Details
- Series
- Wagon Train
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1959-01-14
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
The Flint McCullough Story is Episode 15 in Season 2 of Wagon Train. It aired on 1959-01-14. The runtime is 51 min.
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Episode 14: The Kitty Angel Story
Kitty Angel finds herself not welcome on the wagon train due to her past. When Flint returns to the train toting a sick Indian baby, she has everyone's prejudices to deal with as well as this life threatening illness.
Episode 16: The Hunter Malloy Story
Hunter Malloy and partner get jobs as drivers on the wagon train to rob their boss. Striking gold instead while stopping to repair their wagons, the fever is high as some stop to strike it rich and uncover more than just a few nuggets.
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Episode 17: The Ben Courtney Story
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Episode 12: The Mary Ellen Thomas Story
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Episode 18: The Ella Lindstrom Story
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Episode 11: The Beauty Jamison Story
Flint, at a grave, sees a man stabbed in the back with a note saying Deliver to Beauty Jamison. As that is the daughter of the man interred he pays a visit and sees a woman trying to continue a legacy with the locals trying to break her.
Episode 19: The Last Man
Scouting for a better pass, Flint finds a mountain man, hungry and half out of his mind. With no memory, his strange behavior may endanger the entire wagon train especially when everyone feels they know who he is.
Episode 10: The Tent City Story
When a member of the train is placed in chains after breaking Indian law by killing a buffalo, Major Adams quarrels with Flint who quits and takes a job at nearby Tent City. But White Eagle discovers the dead buffalo and demands justice.
Episode 20: The Old Man Charvanaugh Story
Flint escorts a wagon, leaving the train, to their new home. When they meet an old man with a wagon load of uncured buffalo skins he's trying to sell, they invite him along as he appears friendly enough. But Flint feels he's too friendly.
Episode 9: The Sakae Ito Story
The major comes upon two Japanese men, attacked by Indians and heading towards California. He learns one of the men plans on committing hara kiri while others on the train have designs on a black box they suspect may contain precious gems.
Episode 21: The Annie Griffith Story
Flint, seeking safe passage through the mountains, is shot and losing consciousness is dragged to a cabin. Nursed back to health, his saviour finds the man who shot him was her husband and Flint had to kill him or be killed.