Episode
Wagon Train: The Sam Elder Story
Overview
A retired Captain and ten boys join the wagon train on their way to California. Hitching a ride was all he thought he was involving the boys in until he meets one man on the train with a secret resentment.
Details
- Series
- Wagon Train
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1961-01-18
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Sam Elder Story is Episode 17 in Season 4 of Wagon Train. It aired on 1961-01-18. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 16: The Patience Miller Story
A Quaker schoolteacher heads to the Arapaho nation on the wagon train when her husband is killed. She meets the Chief and his willingness to fight another Indian nation puts her right in the middle of each tribe's pride and customs.
Episode 18: The Weight of Command
Bill and Major Adams plan on going hunting with a friend but when he is not home they suspect a renegade party of Cheyenne who have broken the peace treaty and the wagon train may be their next target.
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Episode 14: The Jeremy Dow Story
When the wagon train passes through town, habitually drunk Jeremy Dow finds that his past has caught up with him. His choices: continue running, or face the demons from his past when he is confronted with this wife and son on the train.
Episode 20: Path of the Serpent
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Episode 13: The Roger Bigelow Story
Roger Bigelow turns to the ministry with his father's help when he realizes what he might become without it. He gets the chance to help someone else on the wrong path but Major Adams is not sure the reverend is helping the right person.
Episode 21: The Odyssey of Flint McCullough
Looking forward to some time off, Flint heads towards the town of Monument but runs into an old man and some kids whose parents were just massacred by some Mescaleros and they're running low on supplies especially milk for the baby.
Episode 12: The River Crossing
A green Army Colonel wipes out a village of Comanche women and children thinking he is getting revenge. The wagon train must face on the one side a swollen river they must cross or a Comanche chief on the other who seeks justice.
Episode 22: The Beth Pearson Story
The leaders of the wagon train are taken aback when they see a woman asking to join the wagon train who is the twin of Major Adams one and only love who died in his arms.
Episode 11: The Candy O'Hara Story
Gabe Henry and his son have been sorely missing the female touch over five years now. Finding a wife during a stopover is his top priority but his choice is known to Major Adams and he does not approve.
Episode 23: The Jed Polke Story
When Flint brings a stranded woman and boy to the train, her husband who went off to find help is also found but his return to the train sets off tempers when four men recognize him and their only thought is murder.