Episode
Wagon Train: The Emmett Lawton Story
Overview
Duke Shannon stops in the town High Times and almost right away gets into a fight with, and accidentally kills, one of the gunmen who are essentially holding the town hostage. Then he finds his horse missing and ignores advise to leave.
Details
- Series
- Wagon Train
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 24
- Air date
- 1963-03-06
Episode context
The Emmett Lawton Story is Episode 24 in Season 6 of Wagon Train. It aired on 1963-03-06.
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Episode 23: The Sara Proctor Story
When children's dolls are found mutilated in her possession, passengers believe that Sara Proctor is either deranged or practicing witchcraft. Hale slowly arrives at the real story after Sara confides to him and Charlie's snooping.
Episode 25: The Annie Duggan Story
An elderly couple and then a young girl become ill with typhoid fever on the wagon train. A young servant girl has attended to them all in isolation. One of the women on the train has an idea about the cause but no one wants to listen.
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Episode 26: The Michael McGoo Story
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Episode 21: The Lily Legend Story
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Episode 27: The Adam MacKenzie Story
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Episode 20: The Hollister John Garrison Story
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Episode 28: The Tom Tuesday Story
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Episode 19: The Naomi Kaylor Story
Hawks rides to the John Kaylor ranch to buy horses for the train but John just died. His widow Naomi refuses to sell the horses at the price John had promised. Naomi shows no sorrow over her husband's death, only wanting to sell the ranch.
Episode 29: The Heather and Hamish Story
Samuel MacIntosh picks Hamish Browne to marry his daughter Heather before the two have met. Heather is a naive young girl who thinks she can talk to animals, while Hamish is a backwoods boy who cares for his livestock more than for women.
Episode 18: The Johnny Masters Story
On his way to Fort David, wagon scout Duke Shannon rescues Sgt. Johnny Masters being sent to prison for twenty years; a man caught between two worlds. The world of his ancestors the Cherokee, and the world of his loyalty, the U.S. Army.
Episode 30: The Blane Wessels Story
Duke and three women under attack by Cheyenne Indians are helped by a stranger who has a fatalistic attitude toward life. They take refuge in a relay station where the stranger slowly relays his past to the others while they hope for help.