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8 seasons · 217 episodesSeason 122 ep. · 1959
Episode 1: Incident of the Tumbleweed
Jan 9, 1959 · 52 min
After a marshal and deputy are wounded and killed, Gil and Rowdy volunteer to finish the delivery of the prison wagon with seven dangerous prisoners to Ft Craig for trial, while the outlaw husband of one prisoner is in pursuit to free her.
Episode 2: Incident at Alabaster Plain
Jan 16, 1959 · 52 min
Rowdy's wartime friend, they spent time in a POW camp, is getting married. The bride's stepbrother, a murderer sixteen times over, has returned to claim his share of the family fortune.
Episode 3: Incident with an Executioner
Jan 23, 1959 · 52 min
A stage load of passengers being chased by the man with the black satchel wrecks. Favor takes them to his camp. The man is a hired executioner after someone from the stage or the herd.
Episode 4: Incident of the Widowed Dove
Jan 30, 1959 · 52 min
Rowdy tries to help Clovis leave her sheriff husband.
Episode 5: Incident On the Edge of Madness
Feb 6, 1959 · 52 min
A fanatical Southern loyalist lures drovers from Favor and Rowdy with tales of founding a new Confederate empire; guest Lon Chaney Jr.
Episode 6: Incident of the Power and the Plow
Feb 13, 1959 · 45 min
Gil Favor gets permission from rancher Jed Reston to drive his herd over Reston's land. He discovers, however, that Reston has a bigoted attitude toward Indians, particularly a local Comanche named Taslatch who wants to be a farmer and who's paid for a mail-order plow. (Reston's recently had his son, Matt, give Taslatch 15 lashes on a trumped-up rustling charge.) Favor earns Reston's enmity by siding with Taslatch. Tensions soon escalate until violence is set to erupt between the Comanches and local townspeople and Favor must take decisive steps to intervene.
Episode 7: Incident at Barker Springs
Feb 20, 1959 · 45 min
Brazo, a retired gunfighter, attempts to keep his kid brother from taking up the family business.
Episode 8: Incident West of Lano
Feb 27, 1959 · 45 min
Four stranded women provide a love interest and a complication for Favor. A freight hauler with a gunfighter says he's using the only river crossing first.
Episode 9: Incident of the Town in Terror
Mar 4, 1959 · 45 min
When Rowdy and two steers are thought to have anthrax, The only medical help is a young lady with two years of nursing school. Her town doesn't want anything to do with the drovers or the herd.
Episode 10: Incident of the Golden Calf
Mar 13, 1959 · 45 min
Brother Bent the newest drover sparks gold fever, when he flashes a huge nuggett.
Episode 11: Incident of the Coyote Weed
Mar 20, 1959 · 45 min
Banditos inside and outside threaten the herd and the drovers.
Episode 12: Incident of the Chubasco
Apr 3, 1959 · 45 min
The drive faces a formidable tasks climbing to a plateau known for it's high winds and dust storms. Favor hires Tom Bryan more for his wagon than the man. Tom sneaks a woman dressed in a bridal gown into the wagon. Jefferson Devereaux, a wealthy land owner, comes looking for a man and a woman, his wife, Jenny. Rowdy was a POW with Tom. He says Tom sold out. Jeff and forty men will be back in the morning for Tom and Jenny.
Episode 13: Incident of the Curious Street
Apr 10, 1959
Favor and Rowdy are looking for strays. They enter a deserted mining town. Matt Lucas is the caretaker. He says he's the only one there. Leaving they hear an organ. Mrs. Miller and her daughter, Angie, say Lucas and his son, Waldo, gunned down the stage coach driver, and is holding them hostage.
Episode 14: Incident of the Dog Days
Apr 17, 1959 · 1h
Favor stops Talby from shooting Johnny Camber, who he says is Billy Carter, who killed his daughter. Clark accuses Carl Myers of being a trail camp thief and a card cheat. Favor decides to take the herd across the dry plain at the worst time of the year. The men begin to question Favor's judgment. Eventually all but six of his men quit.
Episode 15: Incident of the Calico Gun
Apr 24, 1959
Favor and Pete find Jenny Watson outside a burned cabin. Her parents who died of a sickness were burned with the cabin. Favor invites Jenny to ride along to Silver Junction. Jenny is in cahoots with three brothers to rob Favor of the drive's payroll.
Episode 16: Incident of the Misplaced Indians
May 1, 1959
Rowdy finds two indians dead outside a house. Amelia Spaulding is inside singing and making candy.
Episode 17: Incident of Fear in the Streets
May 8, 1959
Pete is injured, so Favor and Rowdy into a nearby town for a doctor. Because the town lynched a man the day before, the residents along with Favor and Rowdy are held hostage until the Sheriff and the man who led the lynching are also hung.
Episode 18: Incident Below the Brazos
May 15, 1959
Favor's welcome to Paradise Valley is a group of gun toting farmers warning the herd better not do any damage to their property. Lightning stampedes the remuda and kills farmer Ken Wade. His wife urges Eli to avenge her husband's death.
Episode 19: Incident of the Dry Drive
May 22, 1959
Jess Hode, a bitter ex-trailboss who the owners thought was too old, demands half of Favor's herd for the only water around. Jess' son stands by him but soon comes to see through his old man. Favor tries a couple other water holes but they are dry.
Episode 20: Incident of the Judas Trap
Jun 5, 1959
With wolves threatening the herd, Pete is sent to town to get a wolver and traps. None are available, but he meets his old flame, Nora Sage. She is later found strangled in her room. Brad Morgan, Medrina Wilcox's foreman also came to see her. Medrina has a herd but only one man. They pool herds. Brad was a wolver, and directs Favor's men in placing the traps. Brad toys with the affections of Nora, Medrina and her sister Paula. Favor lets the sheriff take Pete, but says he needs Morgan.
Episode 21: Incident in No Man's Land
Jun 12, 1959
Favor and Rowdy ride into a settlement of women to find out the source of explosions threatening to stampede the herd. They're told to go to the camp. It uses contract prison labor. The women are the wives and girlfriends of the convicts. Todd McCauley has one month to go, but Clement won't release him saying he knows where the money he stole is. Todd arranges a breakout. The convicts need horses and head for the drive.
Episode 22: Incident of a Burst of Evil
Jun 26, 1959 · 1h
A badly beaten wild man, Bing, says that Comancheros are planning to take the herd. Rowdy befriends a woman, once a countess, now being held by the Comancheros. She offers a mirror for the kindness Rowdy has shown. Rowdy says he couldn't accept it. She sneaks it into his saddlebag. At a trading post the mirror is identified as one taken in a Comanche raid. Rowdy is thought to be a Comanchero and has to fight his way out. Rowdy goes to the Comanchero camp to get Louisa to back up his story and is caught. Loouisa tells Rowdy of the Comancheros plans. Bing was sent by the Comancheros to lead the drive to them.
Season 232 ep. · 1959–1960
Episode 1: Incident of the Day of the Dead
Sep 18, 1959 · 1h
Rowdy is tricked into breaking a stallion to pay off a gambling debt by a woman. The horse killed one man and injured others including the daughter of the owner. Rowdy is involved in more than breaking a horse - the break up of a family.
Episode 2: Incident of the Roman Candles
Sep 25, 1959
Pete and Quince find young Davey Colby who says Indians killed his father and grandfather and carried off his mother. He is trying to reach his uncle in Eberle. Favor doubts his story. He hasn't heard of any Indians in the neighborhood. The Kimble County Sheriff tells Favor, there are no Colbys in Eberle and no Indians within 100 miles. Favor tells Pete some kids just find it easier to lie. Davey says he ran away from home to find his father, a bounty hunter. Favor tells Pete to take him home to his mother. After a couple of unsuccessful escape attempts, they ride up to Davey's home. The door is locked. Davey knocks. A woman answers and says she's never seen Davey before in her life. Pete says he understands and turns to leave. He gets a rifle leveled at him. Inside is Bodie whose knee was shot by Davey's father Sam. Bodie, Mooney and Harv are lying in wait for Sam to return home.
Episode 3: Incident at Dangerfield Dip
Oct 2, 1959
A dying woman stumbles into the cattle drive. Her husband, a feared gunslinger turned rancher, soon shows up and accuses the drovers of shooting her. Gil and Rowdy fear that their cattle are coming down with a deadly disease, so they turn the herd towards the Ewan and Reese Dangerfield chemical dipping station, on the widowed rancher's recommendation.
Episode 4: Incident of the Shambling Man
Oct 9, 1959
When a delusional old man attacks the passing drovers, his daughter-in-law enlists Gil & Rowdy's help with the powerful ex-boxing champ. The Marshal who made the town safe, is now drunk on his own power, enforcing petty rules to keep the tiniest semblance of trouble out of his jurisdiction. Factoring heavily into the situation is that the daughter-in-law is exquisite and widowed.
Episode 5: Incident at Jacob's Well
Oct 16, 1959
Rowdy is saved from falling down a well by a woman. Later, the woman's family and friends manage to steal the drovers' horses.
Episode 6: Incident of the 13th Man
Oct 23, 1959 · 1h
Wishbone, in desperate need of a dentist, finds one in Blanton. Along with Rowdy they both encounter two problems: the doctor is on trial for murder and both of them have been picked to be on the jury. The verdict is the final surprise.
Episode 7: Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse
Oct 30, 1959
While scouting for a river crossing, Favor meets a hostile smokehouse-owner and his wife.
Episode 8: Incident of the Haunted Hills
Nov 6, 1959
Desperate for water, Gil's drive is forced into a deadly confrontation between the Paneequa tribe and surveyors, over the Lake of the Haunted Hills. The valley's ghostly winds and geysers are sacred to the tribe, while the U.S. Army survey is headed by a stubborn Indian killer Captain, who orders a Paneequa woman tortured. Gil hopes his drover Tasunka, who left the tribe as a teen, can mediate the dispute with minimal bloodshed, but when Gil finds that the local White settlement Heliotrope is a ghost town due to the dispute, the trail boss tells Rowdy to take over the drive in case he is killed.
Episode 9: Incident of the Stalking Death
Nov 13, 1959
Gil shoots and wounds a puma while while out scouting for the cattle drive. The puma escaped and kills the young son of a local rancher's widow. Gil and the guys go on the hunt for the puma along with a friend of the widow (Cesar Romero) who also happens to want to kill Gil because he's jealous of the attention the widow shows Gil.
Episode 10: Incident of the Valley in Shadow
Nov 20, 1959 · 1h
Pete has been gone two days. Rowdy has been out looking for him. Pete returns and says there is 80 to 100 Cheyenne ahead. Pete jumps Dagget, a man Favor hired Pete says he's a bounty hunter. Another bounty hunter teams up with Dagget. He shows him an $8000 reward for Nancy Curtis a girl captured by the Indians. Someone posts the reward poster on the chuck wagon. Favor checks on twelve missing steers. He meets Manso, Cheyenne chief whose come to pay for them. Manso leaves and is captured by Dagget. Favor has him released. Favor takes an arrow in the shoulder. He is taken to Manso's camp. There is blonde haired, fair skin Winoka. She shows Favor a locket with ""NC"" on it. Favor is determined to return her to her birth family. Manso says she is Cheyenne now.
Episode 11: Incident of the Blue Fire
Dec 11, 1959
In the midst of a thunderstorm and despite his men's objections, Mr. Favor hires a man who comes across the camp, blamed for bringing bad luck with him, and one bad break follows another.
Episode 12: Incident at Spanish Rock
Dec 18, 1959 · 1h
Claiming to represent President Diaz of Mexico, Villegro and his men want to take one of Gil's men, the son of their biggest enemy, into custody. As they are in Texas and need all hands to drive their herd, Gil is not in favor of doing so.
Episode 13: Incident of the Druid Curse
Jan 8, 1960 · 1h
Professor Lismore and his daughter Mave have come to Texas from Boston to look for rumored Druid stones. Favor tells Jim Lark, who tried to force his intentions on Mave, to draw his pay in the morning. Lark and two other drovers hear the Professor speak figuratively about the value of finding the stones. The three draw their pay. They kidnap the Professor and Mave. They go about trying to force the Professor to disclose the location of the "treasure".
Episode 14: Incident at Red River Station
Jan 15, 1960
Favor, Rowdy and drover Lou Paris find themselves in the middle of a smallpox epidemic in Red River Station. The town's doctor wants to vaccinate the populous. The barber/dentist relies on acifidity bags, leeches and herb tea. Favor tries unsuccessfully to get vaccine from the army.
Episode 15: Incident of the Devil and His Due
Jan 22, 1960
Gil is accused of murder, but is allowed to continue the cattle drive after Rowdy is deputized to guard him. Meanwhile, the real killers, three outlaws, scheme to steal church funds from a priest befriended by Gil and Rowdy.
Episode 16: Incident of the Wanted Painter
Jan 29, 1960
The drovers find a painter from back East on their way, whose paintings help the men of a former Army Major map the town in attempt to bust him out of jail. Mr. Favor gets in the way to help justice be served and stop future bloodshed.
Episode 17: Incident of the Tinker's Dam
Feb 5, 1960
Wishbone buries his brother "alive" to keep Kiowas from killing him for romancing the stony chief's wife. T.J. turns out to be a comical embarrassment: a pot fixer whose customers fight to scalp him for his shoddy tinking, which is his ploy for woman chasing. For years, trail cook Wishy's fellow drovers heard the cook laud his misplaced little brother's prowess as a warrior, politician, you name it. But angering the Kiowa at the moment is deadly serious, because the tribe is divided over signing a treaty. Young braves oppose old Chief Wankawa inking the doc.
Episode 18: Incident of the Night Horse
Feb 19, 1960
An embittered mustanger known by Gil Favor in his younger days blocks the pass that the herd needs to use to reach a river ford where they can cross safely. The mustanger is haunted by a fierce stallion who killed his son, once a friend of Favor.
Episode 19: Incident of the Sharpshooter
Feb 26, 1960
An outlaw usurps a dead man's identity and he is heading for the next town along with the drovers. When Rowdy gets in the middle of his business he finds himself in serious trouble and it is up to Mr. Favor to figure out a way of saving him.
Episode 20: Incident of the Dust Flower
Mar 4, 1960
A posse gives up looking for two outlaws, Vance and his partner. They come upon the body of a lawyer ambushed by indians. Vance decides to pose as Jonathan Williams attorney at law.
Episode 21: Incident at Sulphur Creek
Mar 11, 1960
Horse thieves who have victimized Comanches also strike the drive's ramuda. Gil sends a group headed by Pete and Rowdy out to purchase replacement mounts. They encounter a preacher on his way to officiate a christening at the Lacey ranch, where he says horses are for sale. The drovers find their own stolen horses corralled there. So do the Comanches, who put the ranch under siege.
Episode 22: Incident of the Champagne Bottles
Mar 18, 1960
It looks like the drovers are moving smoothly until they find a very slow moving wagon on their way, allegedly carrying champagne. As it turns out it was not only champagne and everyone could be in danger.
Episode 23: Incident of the Stargazer
Apr 1, 1960
A woman gets off the stage expecting to meet her husband. But she was let off in the middle of nowhere, a good 30 miles from her home. Pete decides to help her get there but when they arrive, she recognizes everyone except her husband.
Episode 24: Incident of the Dancing Death
Apr 8, 1960
When the son of a gypsy queen is murdered, she insists one of the drovers did it and demands the killer be found and turned over. Gil rebuffs her, prompting the old woman to predict trouble for the drive, which does start to happen.
Episode 25: Incident of the Arana Sacar
Apr 22, 1960
The owner of a remote trading post and his wife are coerced into backing a rustler's scheme to get the drovers drunk, swipe the herd and sell the beeves to hide skinners.
Episode 26: Incident of the Deserter
Apr 29, 1960
While taking a mountain short cut, Wishbone is injured in a fall caused by a bullying ore freighter. He seeks aid in a small mining town, where he becomes attached to a widow, who is the freighter's fiancée.
Episode 27: Incident of the 100 Amulets
May 6, 1960
Hey Soos goes to town to visit his mother but, while buying supplies to take to her, he is attacked as the town believe his mother is a witch who has cursed the town.
Episode 28: Incident of the Murder Steer
May 13, 1960
A steer with the word "MURDER" branded on its side, considered an omen of violent death, is seen shortly after four mysterious riders from the same town join the drive.
Episode 29: Incident of the Music Maker
May 20, 1960
When Gil receives a nasty wound that becomes seriously infected, he is unaware of a Swiss jack-of-all-trades that has totally unarmed his cowboys. The Swiss has a plan for some of the cattle.
Episode 30: Incident of the Silent Web
Jun 3, 1960
A young girl is so shocked at her father's murder that she can not speak. She is taken captive by two escaped convicts.
Episode 31: Incident of the Last Chance
Jun 10, 1960
Gil takes a protective interest in a stranded tenderfoot couple. Rowdy is interested in the wife.
Episode 32: Incident in the Garden of Eden
Jun 17, 1960
Rowdy leaves to buy cattle to replenish the herd. He comes to a town of an eccentric English patriarch living with his beautiful daughter. Rowdy doesn't understand why he seems so afraid to sell the cattle without his foreman's permission.
Season 330 ep. · 1960–1961
Episode 1: Incident at Rojo Canyon
Sep 30, 1960
Favor and a calvary detachment lead by Sargeant Matson swear if they did not know better would think they were under attack from a military unit.
Episode 2: Incident of the Challenge
Oct 14, 1960
Favor gets knocked off his horse and knocked out. He wakes to Aztec Indian who has traveled 1500 miles to find a princess.
Episode 3: Incident at Dragoon Crossing
Oct 21, 1960
An ailing Favor asks John Cord to take over the herd. He heads them to Dragoon Crossing where the Bates boys demanded tribute when he brought his herd through.
Episode 4: Incident of the Night Visitor
Nov 4, 1960
Jeff Barkley catches a stranger in the camp, a boy of about twelve. He wings Jeff. They track the boys footprints. Seven or eight men tried to steal the ramuda. Favor finds the boy. He was traveling with some horsetraders led by Nick Mesa. Favor takes the boy back to Mesa. He doesn't want the boy back. Joey Gardner is looking for his Pa.
Episode 5: Incident of the Slavemaster
Nov 11, 1960
Mrs. Bradley pulls a gun on Victor Laurier and wants to know where her husband is. She knows he isn't dead. Victor was in charge of a POW camp. At the end of the war Victor says he sent 27 union soldiers and three guards, one his son east, but they never reached their destination. Mrs. Bradley got a letter from her husband four years after he was supposed to have died.
Episode 6: Incident on the Road to Yesterday
Nov 18, 1960
Ralph Bartlet asks Favor to return $250 to a stage line he held up and to check on his first love.
Episode 7: Incident at Superstition Prairie
Dec 2, 1960
Wish finds an indian left to die in a cave, and rescues him.
Episode 8: Incident at Poco Tiempo
Dec 9, 1960 · 1h
The Poco Tiempo bank has been. Rowdy and Quince are suspects and are taken to two nuns to be identified. They say they are not the men. Two desperadoes are holding Father Sebastian until the nuns deliver the money to Blainesville.
Episode 9: Incident of the Captive
Dec 16, 1960
Harkness Musgrove's III mother is coming to take him home. Mushy asks to be a drover. Favor says yes. Mom's stage gets held up. Mom slaps the bandana off one of the highwaymen. Another stage chases them off. Vince says they'll have to kill her.
Episode 10: Incident of the Buffalo Soldier
Jan 1, 1961
Rowdy chases after a buffalo soldier who has killed another soldier and has taken off on his horse.
Episode 11: Incident of the Broken Word
Jan 20, 1961
Ben Foley resorts to murder to hide the fact the cattle he is selling to Favor are diseased. Frank Pierce accidentily shot Ben's wife years ago.
Episode 12: Incident at the Top of the World
Jan 27, 1961
There's a new drover who has just spent five years in an army hospital and is addicted to morphine.
Episode 13: Incident Near the Promised Land
Feb 3, 1961
The drive has reached Sedalia but there is a bank scare and no buyers. Favor must deal with bitter Emma Caldwell to graze the herd.
Episode 14: Incident of the Big Blowout
Feb 10, 1961
The drovers celebrate the end of the drive. Rowdy is mistaken for another man.
Episode 15: Incident of the Fish Out of Water
Feb 17, 1961
Favor returns to Philadelphia to see his two daughters. Another passenger is Ogala, Chief of the Pawnee. He is going to be in a wild west show.
Episode 16: Incident on the Road Back
Feb 24, 1961
The men are gathering for the next drive. A stray horse is tied up. Favor is arrested for horse stealing. The sheriff's wife is having an affair, with Cronin who reported the horse stolen.
Episode 17: Incident of the New Start
Mar 3, 1961
Jubal Wade has 1600 head on this drive and demands to be trail boss and says he'll keep Favor's crew if he stays on as ramrod.
Episode 18: Incident of the Running Iron
Mar 10, 1961
Frank Miller is a herd cutter getting on in years with a nineteen year old son. Quince chases a rustler off, but is arrested himself.
Episode 19: Incident Near Gloomy River
Mar 17, 1961
Dan Fletcher returns to his Ma and brother,Cal, whose home just burned. Cal thinks Frank Travis is trying to run them off. Frank's daughter Flora has had Cal courting her for a year, but she likes Danny.
Episode 20: Incident of the Boomerang
Mar 24, 1961
Ruthann Harper and Richard Goffage are taking 200 head of cattle to Australia. Ruthann has a questionable past.
Episode 21: Incident of his Brother's Keeper
Mar 31, 1961
Paul Evans is confined to a wheelchair. His wife is preparing to run away with Paul's brother. Pete gets stuck in the middle.
Episode 22: Incident in the Middle of Nowhere
Apr 7, 1961 · 1h
Favor and Rowdy come upon a ballet in the middle of nowhere. A search for a pass and water leads to villians looking for gold.
Episode 23: Incident of the Phantom Bugler
Apr 14, 1961 · 1h
Jayhawkers try to charge Favor for water and a toll to cross the river, on indian territory. Captain Brian Donohoe follows the orders of Judge Brady. Mary, the judges daughter is married to Brian and doesn't like it.
Episode 24: Incident of the Lost Idol
Apr 28, 1961 · 1h
Billy Manson, his mom and sister Laurie are on the way to meet their aunt, who is to take them back east. Two bounty hunters shadow them, hoping to find Clete their wanted father.
Episode 25: Incident of the Running Man
May 5, 1961
Rowdy is handcuffed to a deputy that says he has to warn Camp Henly. The deputy is shot and Rowdy is arrested for murder.
Episode 26: Incident of the Painted Lady
May 12, 1961 · 1h
Partners of Thad Clemens are holding Favor's herd until they're paid the $15,000 that Thad swindled them out of. Baxter Springs Cattleman's Association will not help Favor.
Episode 27: Incident Before Black Pass
May 19, 1961 · 1h
Pete and Rowdy are captured by the Kiowa. Two other indians want to accompany the herd to Black Pass.
Episode 28: Incident of the Blackstorms
May 26, 1961
Sky Blackstorm sends a message to the River City sheriff with Mushy. He's coming tomorrow at sun up for his son Danny.
Episode 29: Incident of the Night on the Town
Jun 2, 1961 · 1h
Judge Akins tells Favor he has 750 head of Mrs. North cattle. Lewis, Mrs. North lawyer says the cattle that Wesley Adams turned over to Favor, were Mrs. North's and were to be delivered to the army.
Episode 30: Incident of the Wager on Payday
Jun 16, 1961
Sidney Proctor, along with Joe Stapp, are robbing his father's bank as a joke. The night watchman, Simpson, wakes up. Joe clunks him. Sid thinks they're bringing the money back in three days.
Season 430 ep. · 1961–1962
Episode 1: Rio Salado
Sep 29, 1961 · 48 min
Rowdy and Hey Soos are robbed by Antonio Marcos. He is leading a revolution against the Texas land grant. Rowdy meets his Dad, who ran out on him and his Ma.
Episode 2: The Sendoff
Oct 2, 1961 · 48 min
The drovers are beating the scrub for strays. Favor finds wagon remains and twelve graves.
Episode 3: The Long Shakedown
Oct 13, 1961
An overbearing Favor leads to many drovers quitting. Five replacements stir trouble.
Episode 4: Judgment at Hondo Seco
Oct 20, 1961
Quince gets a letter. He needs a couple of days off. Jim, Pete, Rowdy and Hey Soos go to Hando Seco. Casey the bartender knocks their drinks out of their hands when he finds out they rode in with Jim. Jim asks Judge Matt Quince how's his niece Joanna. She wants help running away. She's in love with Brad Lyons. He has a murder warrant on his head.
Episode 5: The Lost Tribe
Oct 27, 1961
Indians stampede the herd. The sheriff says it's a 100 Cheyenne headed for Mexico. Pete picks up their trail. Pete asks Rowdy not to tell Favor right away. Little Hawk, the Chief, is the father of Pete's dead wife.
Episode 6: The Inside Man
Nov 3, 1961 · 1h
Craddock and Clay Forrester plot to steal the herd. Shelia Brewster is running away from her army fiancee.
Episode 7: The Black Sheep
Nov 10, 1961
Favor asks sheepherder,Tod Stone, to let the herd pass his flock. He won't. They take the herd over the ridge to the next valley. Tod takes a shortcut and beats them. Rowdy and Collins scatter the flock. Tod the herd. Rowdy fights Tod. Tod falls on his scaling knife. Favor tells Rowdy he's taking Tod and his flock to Twin Hat.
Episode 8: The Prairie Elephant
Nov 17, 1961 · 1h
Favor finds a circus that is lost. Pascal the owner and clown beats his wife, Jenny, who wants to run away with Dario the other half of her high wire act.
Episode 9: The Little Fishes
Nov 24, 1961
Gilmore tells Favor there's a panic brewing back east. He needs to cut ten days off the drive. Gilmore says don't tell the drovers about the panic. Tom Gwynn ,a fishbreeder, is sick with fever. He's taking shad to California to claim a $10,000 prize.
Episode 10: The Blue Spy
Dec 8, 1961 · 1h
A woman wanders into camp needing help. She is an actress who one of the men recognizes later. She worked as a Union spy during the war. Although most of the men hate her, one even more so as he was court-martialed due to her.
Episode 11: The Gentleman's Gentleman
Dec 15, 1961
Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll. Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.
Episode 12: Twenty-Five Santa Clauses
Dec 22, 1961
Mushy tells Wish he sees Santa Claus - Mr. Bateman - in Texas in the middle of August. Bateman is lost. He keels over. He, his wife Mag, and their nine-year-old boy, Danny, are on their way to New York. Danny won't last until Christmas.
Episode 13: The Long Count
Jan 5, 1962 · 1h
Martha Hastings is running a way station for outlaws. Rowdy, Pete and Wish are hired as census takers.
Episode 14: The Captain's Wife
Jan 12, 1962 · 1h
Nora Holloway is ambitious for her captain husband to advance. She resorts to lying.
Episode 15: The Peddler
Jan 19, 1962
The drovers discover peddler Mendel J. Sorkin trying to drive a small herd of cattle all by himself. Mendel wants to sell the herd in a nearby town and use the money to return to his native country.
Episode 16: The Woman Trap
Jan 26, 1962
Pete and Rowdy find a whole herd of good looking women heading to Fort Worth to get married.
Episode 17: The Boss's Daughters
Feb 2, 1962 · 1h
The drover are stopped by fence at Vance Caldwell's ranch and are told they will have to wait until he returns to get permission to pass. But the fence isn't Favor's only problem, his daughters are about to join him on the trail.
Episode 18: The Deserters' Patrol
Feb 9, 1962 · 1h
The indians want to trade six soldiers they hold for thier Chief. Favor is commissioned as a captain to make the exchange.
Episode 19: The Greedy Town
Feb 16, 1962 · 1h
Ada Randolph offers the town $300,000 if they find her dead son, a convicted murderer innocent, and run the sheriff out of town.
Episode 20: Grandma's Money
Feb 23, 1962 · 1h
On a trip to collect a debt, Rowdy sees an elderly woman apparently hounded by thieves. After rescuing her they go to a nearby town where Rowdy is to collect the debt and she awaits a stage. However, she frames Rowdy for multiple thefts.
Episode 21: The Pitchwagon
Mar 2, 1962 · 1h
When Frank is killed by indians, a collection is taken for his family. Clay suggests a poker game to run it up.
Episode 22: Hostage Child
Mar 9, 1962 · 1h
A thirteen year old indian is going to Fort Lacey to see his sister. The commandant hates all indians. He and his wife Azuela have a son.
Episode 23: The Immigrants
Mar 16, 1962 · 1h
Quince, Clay and Wish are captured and told by Count Ulrich they are his property and will work on his manor house.
Episode 24: The Child-Woman
Mar 23, 1962 · 1h
Mushy's cousin asks him to take her sister to his mom, to get out of the saloons. She doesn't want to go.
Episode 25: A Woman's Place
Mar 30, 1962 · 1h
A wagon falls on Harve. Rowdy and Favor go for a doctor. Dr. Daniel Pearson, a quack, says he's the only doctor in town. Mrs. James directs them to Dr. Louise Amadon.
Episode 26: Reunion
Apr 6, 1962 · 1h
Pete's friend Grey Hawk's son, Wild Horse has escaped and is raiding. General Perry is bringing 500 head of cattle for the indians. Pete is leading Lieutenant Matthew Perry to his father.
Episode 27: House of the Hunter
Apr 20, 1962 · 1h
A deaf mute delivers a letter for Rowdy at the camp. Rowdy picks up a guy, Kilo, whose wagon was stolen. They make camp. In the morning, Kilo and the horses are gone. Rowdy walks to a house and enters. The door shuts behind him. Mackie and five others lock Rowdy in a room. Someone shoots at Rowdy from outside. The six are being held prisoner.
Episode 28: Gold Fever
May 4, 1962 · 1h
Hosea Brewer has been prospecting Lost Mine ten years after everyone has left. The thought of gold and his three daughters attract the drovers.
Episode 29: The Devil and the Deep Blue
May 11, 1962 · 1h
Favor wants to fatten the herd for a week. Another herd is three to five days behind. The trail boss is Ben Wade and all the drovers are old. Charlie Holt , owners representative, comes onto Helen Wade, and vice versa. Two of Wade's cattle have Texas Tick.
Episode 30: Abilene
May 18, 1962
The herd finally arrives in Abilene, the end of a long, hard drive. While most of the drovers plan to spend their pay painting the town, Favor has a few other ideas. He is going to buy some land and get out of the cattle business. Don Grenfell also has been told to quit due to a bad back. The drovers are all quarantined at Oddity House due to small pox.
Season 530 ep. · 1962–1963
Episode 1: Incident of El Toro
Sep 21, 1962
When a wild bull distracts the herd, a trouble-making hired hand is charged with taking him down. Meanwhile, a rising river, injured men and a frustrated trail boss add to the tension of the trail.
Episode 2: Incident of the Hunter
Sep 28, 1962
Rowdy recognizes the new drover as a fellow Confederate soldier. But when Clay identifies him as a bounty hunter, the crew becomes paranoid about who he's after.
Episode 3: Incident of the Portrait
Oct 5, 1962
Frank Trask enters the Curtis' at night through a window. He's hungry and takes a picture of a woman. Raymond Curtis hears a noise and checks it outs. Trask knocks him out. Marion, the woman in the picture, ""sees"" Trask leave.
Episode 4: Incident at Cactus Wells
Oct 12, 1962 · 1h
A suspicious old cowboy who's been tracking Favor's drive asks to join the crew, and turns out to be an ex-con. While most of the drovers want him out, Favor stands by his new hire.
Episode 5: Incident of the Prodigal Son
Oct 19, 1962 · 1h
Sam Hargas finds a half baked, half starved greenhorn, Ben Whitney IV. His horse stepped in a chuck hole. He's a rich brat.
Episode 6: Incident of the Four Horsemen
Oct 26, 1962 · 1h
Favor and Clay are witnesses at a the wedding of Amy Gault and Frank Louden. Gus Marsdon provokes Frank into shooting Amy's brother Carl. Tom Gault, Amy's father, sends Ben Kerran after them. Frank and Tom claim the same 100,000 acres.
Episode 7: Incident of the Lost Woman
Nov 2, 1962 · 1h
Favor finds a woman, Lissa Hobson, still alive but not by much, and her baby, Tad.
Episode 8: Incident of the Dogfaces
Nov 9, 1962 · 1h
Rowdy,Quince and Clay help out three soldiers being attacked by Indians. They were sent to break the treaty with Broken Bow.
Episode 9: Incident of the Wolvers
Nov 16, 1962 · 1h
Rowdy hires wolfers Abner Cannon and his children.
Episode 10: Incident at Sugar Creek
Nov 23, 1962 · 1h
An injured ex-con Sam Garrett is refused treatment by his home town.
Episode 11: Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
Nov 30, 1962
Rowdy gets drugged in a bar with Shelia, the bar owner's girl and wakes up married to her.
Episode 12: Incident of the Querencias
Dec 7, 1962 · 1h
Gil's old friend, Lije Crowning, has had his ranch foreclosed on by the bank. Lije wants to take his thirty head with the drive to Colorado.
Episode 13: Incident at Quivira
Dec 14, 1962 · 1h
Monty Fox comes stumbling up to the night camp playing the concertina, saying he's found the promised land. He says he's found Quivera, Coronado's golden city. He says he'll share with those who help him against those who chased him out.
Episode 14: Incident of Decision
Dec 28, 1962
When Rowdy buys eighteen cattle for the next drive he has to contend with a young would be drover with a crooked leg and banditos.
Episode 15: Incident of the Buryin' Men
Jan 4, 1963 · 1h
Favor and Rowdy see two Cheyenne. They are watching a burying wagon. It's owner, Pomeroy K. Tollliver (Poke) surrenders to Favor thinking they're a posse. The wagon is broken. Favor will have the wagon fixed and Poke can ride to Rock City with the herd.
Episode 16: Incident of the Trail's End
Jan 11, 1963 · 1h
Harry Maxton has glaucoma. Gil offers Harry a job to Rowdy's surprise.
Episode 17: Incident at Spider Rock
Jan 18, 1963 · 1h
Lola's saloon is watering the booze and cheating the drovers. The supplies Wish bought are bad.
Episode 18: Incident of the Mountain Man
Jan 25, 1963 · 1h
Thomas and the men of the wagon train are ready to string up Josh Green for killing Thomas's boy. Josh is a mountain man lost in the modern world.
Episode 19: Incident at Crooked Hat
Feb 1, 1963 · 1h
Gil stands by his old friend Jack Jennings. Jack's a gunfighter. In a fair fight he shot the brother of the most powerful man in the town.
Episode 20: Incident of Judgment Day
Feb 8, 1963 · 1h
Rowdy's ex-commanding officer, Captain Cabot convenes a make shift courts-martial for him in a ghost town.
Episode 21: Incident of the Gallows Tree
Feb 22, 1963 · 1h
In Cottonwood, at the Pair-A-Dice Saloon, Qunice gets in a fight with Major Courtney. Jim swears he'll kill him.
Episode 22: Incident of the Married Widow
Mar 1, 1963 · 1h
In Calvin, Miss Abigail owns The Silver Slipper Salon, a very posh saloon. There Rowdy sees the picture of the dead war hero, Gil Favor, Abigail's husband.
Episode 23: Incident of the Pale Rider
Mar 15, 1963 · 1h
The new man is a dead ringer for the man Rowdy shot in a Wells Fargo holdup.
Episode 24: Incident of the Comanchero
Mar 22, 1963
Sisters Benaventura and Teresa cut Maria Jose Chappela off an indian torture rack.
Episode 25: Incident of the Clown
Mar 29, 1963 · 1h
Morris G. Stevens, a failed actor, toured the world as a clown. Now a philologist he wants to create a Comanche dictionary.
Episode 26: Incident of the Black Ace
Apr 12, 1963 · 1h
A gypsy tells Wish's fortune he draws the death card three times.
Episode 27: Incident of the Hostages
Apr 19, 1963 · 1h
Rowdy buys three white children from the Arapahos that have been raised by the Apache.
Episode 28: Incident of White Eyes
May 3, 1963 · 1h
Favor and Hey Soos rescue Domingo, Lt. Carter and the Butlers from a runaway stage. The make to a stage station and fight off indians.
Episode 29: Incident at Rio Doloroso
May 10, 1963 · 1h
Don Francisco Maldonaldo sentences Favor and Rowdy to die for the death of his son.
Episode 30: Incident at Alkali Sink
May 24, 1963 · 1h
Burt Harvey is accused of cowardice at Gettysburg by his new father-in-law.
Season 630 ep. · 1963–1964
Episode 1: Incident of the Red Wind
Sep 26, 1963 · 1h
Favor tells Rowdy to let Lou Bowdart drive the herd up the San Marcos trail.
Episode 2: Incident of Iron Bull
Oct 3, 1963
Joseph a Comanche is hired after returning the remuda. Colonel Macklin and Sargeant Graogan are accompanting the herd as far as Waycross.
Episode 3: Incident at El Crucero
Oct 10, 1963 · 1h
Rose Cornelius and her ten brothers have fenced off the trail Favor needs to cross to get the herd to water.
Episode 4: Incident of the Travellin' Man
Oct 17, 1963 · 1h
Jagger is fished out of the river with leg irons on. His story doesn't match that of Matt Harger.
Episode 5: Incident at Paradise
Oct 24, 1963
Rowdy rescues nester Higgins from being used for target practice and gets involved in his fight to stay on his farm.
Episode 6: Incident at Farragut Pass
Oct 31, 1963 · 1h
In return for crossing her land to water, E.J. Farragut wants Favor to hire her grandson Billy.
Episode 7: Incident at Two Graves
Nov 7, 1963 · 1h
Wish volunteers Rowdy to fight Jeremiah O'Neal for money. O'Neal gives the fight away and Rowdy wins $50. The losers are ready to tar and feather O'Neal. Rowdy helps him escape. O'Neal has a cross made by the indians for the Spaniards. He speaks of a lost mine.
Episode 8: Incident of the Rawhiders
Nov 14, 1963 · 1h
While scouting Rowdy stumbles on rawhiders. After Rowdy refuses to kill Brock in a fight, the leader forces Brock to give Rowdy his intended bride in return for his life. Rowdy is allowed to escape leading the rawhiders to the herd.
Episode 9: Incident of the Prophecy
Nov 21, 1963 · 1h
The drovers have a Saturday off for the first time in a long time. To wake up the dead town. Rowdy and his friend Rabbit shoot at a schoolhouse bell. A bullet ricochets and kills Jud Hilton. His brother, Brother William, a tetched self proclaimed minister, puts a curse on them and say they can't outrun death.
Episode 10: Incident at Confidence Creek
Nov 28, 1963 · 1h
Elwood P. Gilroy and his assistant Crystal Simpson steal the ownership papers for the herd, and sell the herd to Orville Tippet at a large loss. Elwood ditches Crystal. Rowdy and Crystal follow Elwood to bring him back to justice.
Episode 11: Incident of the Death Dancer
Dec 5, 1963 · 1h
Carlock has been tracking an African lion for four years. Favor hires him to get the lion. Mushy wants to be a hunter.
Episode 12: Incident of the Wild Deuces
Dec 12, 1963 · 1h
When Mushy wins $1500 at Lorelei's Trailbalazer playing seven card stud deuces wild his troubles begin.
Episode 13: Incident of the Geisha
Dec 19, 1963 · 1h
After Rowdy tells Hey Soos to let a wild stallion go, Hey Soos tries to saddle it again. It bolts knocking Rowdy down and injuring his back. The remuda is stampeded. Out collecting the horses Hey Soos sees the stallion. He tries to lasso it. He is knocked of his horse by a limb and rolls down a hill into a stream. He awakes with his clothes drying overhead. He is in a kimona and a geisha kneels nearby.
Episode 14: Incident at Ten Trees
Jan 2, 1964 · 1h
The drovers find a young white woman dressed as an indian, babbling.
Episode 15: Incident of the Rusty Shotgun
Jan 9, 1964
Three brothers think Wish is their sister's intended.
Episode 16: Incident of the Midnight Cave
Jan 16, 1964
Wish nearly falls off the high trail and awakes blind.
Episode 17: Incident of the Dowry Dundee
Jan 23, 1964 · 1h
Rowdy and Quince come across a wee lass, with for huge bulls and a wagon of heirlooms.
Episode 18: Incident at Gila Flats
Jan 30, 1964 · 1h
While helping the Army deliver cattle to an Apache tribe, Favor, Wishbone and Quince run into a band of renegade Indians determined to stop them.
Episode 19: Incident of the Pied Piper
Feb 6, 1964 · 1h
After a tornado scatters the herd, they are a 100 head short. They learn a man running an orphanage sold them to the local banker. Realizing the banker is the guilty party, Favor decides to teach him a lesson and recover some of his money.
Episode 20: Incident of the Swindler
Feb 20, 1964 · 1h
An old ""friend"" of Wish's tells him he is a wanted man for a murder in New Orleans thirteen years ago.
Episode 21: Incident of the Wanderer
Feb 27, 1964 · 1h
Michob, a peddler, comes out of a rain storm, bone dry. Things begin to go wrong and he is labeled a jinx.
Episode 22: Incident at Zebulon
Mar 5, 1964 · 1h
Favor goes to Zebulon, Johnny Larkin is taken by a group of masked riders and charged with a woman's death. When Favor is horse whipped he is determined to find out the identity of the major, the head of the regulator.
Episode 23: Incident at Hourglass
Mar 12, 1964 · 1h
The herd needs to get through Hourglass pass where the army is preparing to blast for a dam. Favor's hometown friend is married to the Post Adjutant. When she kills an officer, she lies to get Favor convicted of the murder.
Episode 24: Incident at the Odyssey
Mar 26, 1964 · 1h
Favor is pushing hard to outrun hoof and mouth disease just as he had seven years earlier. Pan an ex-circus performer searches for a lady he heard singing eleven years earlier.
Episode 25: Incident of the Banker
Apr 2, 1964 · 1h
An old friend of Favor's, a banker, backs him into a corner and is allowed to take over as trail boss, while Favor runs his bank.
Episode 26: Incident at Deadhorse (1)
Apr 16, 1964
The town's richest and most popular man is convicted and sentenced to be hung for the revenge murder of his son's killer. He is undaunted by this because he is counting on no one in town be willing to act as executioner.
Episode 27: Incident at Deadhorse (2)
Apr 23, 1964
When Wishbone and Mushy realize Hannibal is not safe they try to help. They are brought back tied up while Hannibal is tarred and feathered. Hannibal returns to Deadhorse and the men want to help him against Favor's better judgment.
Episode 28: Incident of the Gilded Goddess
Apr 30, 1964 · 1h
Rowdy's old acquaintance, Louise Temple is on the run for killing a sheriff. She ran the Temple Of Gold gambling hall.
Episode 29: Incident at Seven Fingers
May 7, 1964 · 1h
Sam Turner steals Rowdy's horse. Sam is an escapee from the army guardhouse, charges with breaking and running in the face of fire. Rowdy's horse goes lame. Rowdy catches Sam and offers him a job. Captain Coulter and his men rush into camp and arrests Sam. Favor says things don't add up and comes to his defense.
Episode 30: Incident of the Peyote Cup
May 14, 1964 · 1h
Hey Soos is captured by a small secretive tribe of Indians, and forced to drink peyote liquid. An indian girl helps him escape. The new drover, Mister Brothers was a missionary and tried to convert this tribe. They came to believe if they crucified white men they dead ancestors would come back to life.
Season 730 ep. · 1964–1965
Episode 1: The Race
Sep 25, 1964 · 1h
Rowdy quits and gets his own herd and races Favor to the railhead.
Episode 2: The Enormous Fist
Oct 2, 1964 · 1h
When Fred Grant slugs Favor he hits him back. Fred falls hitting his head against a fencepost and dies. There is an inquest. Favor has to deal with the widow and her three kids.
Episode 3: Piney
Oct 9, 1964 · 1h
Favor hears Piney Kinney wants to join the herd thinking it will solve his need for drovers. However, Piney who lost his herd and most of his ranch, is working with a gang to rob the bank and use Favor's herd as cover for their escape.
Episode 4: The Lost Herd
Oct 16, 1964 · 1h
Favor loses the whole herd except nine, taking a shortcut thru Devil's Patch Quilt trying to beat another herd in. He must face Mr. Teisner of the cattleman's association.
Episode 5: A Man Called Mushy
Oct 23, 1964 · 1h
Mushy is swindled out of the wagons and the remuda. He is fired, kidnapped by gypsies, sold into slavery and rescued by his new girlfriend.
Episode 6: Canliss
Oct 30, 1964
Gurd Canliss an aging hired gun, has Don Miguel as his next target. Gurd's wife Augusta and Favor try to stop it.
Episode 7: Damon's Road (1)
Nov 13, 1964 · 1h
Jonathan Damon is building the C&L Railroad. His crew has quit do to lack of pay. The store says no more credit. Goldie, his girl, and the three girls in her act are leaving. He needs to dig up 20 men. Favor shows up with 2400 cattle and 28 men. Damon tricks the drovers in o signing work contracts and having Favor arrested for abducting Goldie.
Episode 8: Damon's Road (2)
Nov 30, 1964
Damon has Favor's crew believing the railroad is the future. Favor escapes and goes to his crew, who want to be railroaders. Favor gets Quince to sent a false telegram that Damon's payroll arrived a week ago. Favor tells Damon's old crew. They go for a showdown with Damon.
Episode 9: The Backshooter
Nov 27, 1964 · 1h
Sam Jefferson aids Rowdy after his horse takes a spill. Sam is a wanted man. He asks Rowdy to turn him in and give the $5000 to his wife.
Episode 10: Corporal Dasovik
Dec 4, 1964
When a officer dies, Cpl. Dasovik is forced to take over the mission but he has no control over the men. The men pick up Favor when they take some of his cattle. Dasovik soon learns he is alone but he is determined to carry out his orders.
Episode 11: The Photographer
Dec 11, 1964
A photograher leads an unsuspecting Rowdy into a den of thieves.
Episode 12: No Dogs or Drovers
Dec 18, 1964 · 1h
Gil Favor's cattlemen arrive at a town after a long,hard cattle drive and find that the town isn't receptive to cattle drivers.
Episode 13: The Meeting
Jan 1, 1965 · 1h
Favor and another trail boss are forced to go to meet Rian Powers. Powers has assembled a group of outlaws. He has a plan to take over the beef industry, buy scaring off legitimate buyers so the trail bosses must sell to his men at low prices.
Episode 14: The Book
Jan 8, 1965
Pop Stark promotes gunfights for profit. Billy his latest boy just lost. Carl Hatcher loaned Pop money. His brothers are coming to collect. Pop arranges a gunfight between Rowdy and Austin Ware, a professional gunfighter.
Episode 15: Josh
Jan 15, 1965 · 1h
Seventy year old Josh Breeden's pride won't let him admit he's too old to be a drover. He blames Favor for all his problems.
Episode 16: A Time for Waiting
Jan 22, 1965 · 1h
On his way to Fort Mason Rowdy is chased by indians. Rowdy testified against Captain George Ballinger at his trial, even though they are friends. He asks Rowdy to stay until he is hung. .
Episode 17: Moment in the Sun
Jan 29, 1965 · 1h
Sheriff Royal K. Shaw plans are making a name for himself by delivering popular Robin Hoodesque outlaw, Reed McClulley. He ties up with the herd. Reed's little brother rallies the farmers to free Reed.
Episode 18: Texas Fever
Feb 5, 1965
Pete Nolan (Sheb Wooley), who'd been out scouting for the Army for the last couple of years, is back working for Favor starting in this episode, only to find himself falsely accused of rustling and murder. The local sheriff and some cattlemen, who've been victimized by the rustlers, are too willing to hang him quickly without any real trial. Favor and Rowdy try to find the real rustlers and save Pete from the gallows, though the trail may lead too close to a friendly rancher Favor respects.
Episode 19: Blood Harvest
Feb 12, 1965
Clete Bonner and his grandson Will, posing as Jonas and Duke Williams, join the drive, to see if Will's Dad, Adam, is suitable to take Will. Adam, known as Cable now, is scheming with two others to steal 1500 head and sell to the army.
Episode 20: The Violet Land
Mar 5, 1965
Mace and Gorman the new drovers have more than cows on thier minds. Mace shows Favor a reward poster for $10,000 for a white girl captured by the Apaches. Rowdy visits the grave of his sister killed the the indians. Rowdy refuses to sell twelve head to Yuma, the Apache chief.
Episode 21: The Winter Soldier
Mar 12, 1965 · 1h
Favor and Pete recommend to Kurtz, who has been traveling with the herd with his daughter, a shortcut to the San Luis crossing. Lt. Whitley gets a message to warn the ranchers of Comanches. Winter soldier, Hap Johnson deserts. He trades his army gear for cheap indian trading goods at Watson's. He asks Watson, Wish's name. Hap strides into camp telling Wish he is his old friend from Nachodoches. Favor won't hire Hap. Hap has overheard Kurtz has money. He rides after them and takes them on a ""shortcut"" up into the hills. The lieutenant arrests Watson, Favor and Hey Soos for having army goods. Rowdy and Quince go after Hap. They find him with Kurtz. Rowdy sends Quince to get the army and the drover.
Episode 22: Prairie Fire
Mar 19, 1965 · 1h
Wish buries Tod Murdoch, his friend, who 500 head he is to take to tie up with Favor's herd at horsehead crossing. Tod's foreman Jerry and Milt and Pitts plan to steal the cattle once they get the ownership paper from Wish. Wish has hidden it plain sight. He won't tell where and they try to beat it out of him.
Episode 23: Retreat
Mar 26, 1965
Major Cantwell can't wait to retire from the army. He was demoted from colonel for ""irregularities in records"". He says the charge was unfounded. He steals the $32,000 camp payroll and wraps it in a package. He asks Favor to mail it for him. Kaster, the major's aid, drummed out for drinking, sees Favor take the package. Cantwell's replacement arrives and says his demotion was reversed and he's being promoted to brigadier general. He goes after Favor and the package. Kaster steals the package from favor's saddle bag.
Episode 24: Empty Sleeve
Apr 2, 1965
Tom Cowan lost an arm in the war. He had a friend in the hospital write his wife, Jenny, that he died. Tom reluctantly returns to his hometown when the herd needs salt. Sam Butler, the banker, made a deal with Tom when he was caught robbing the bank. Tom enlisted under Sam's son's name, Will. Tom is shot by the sheriff and brought into town. Sam wants him snuck out. Will tells Jenny the whole story.
Episode 25: The Last Order
Apr 9, 1965
Rowdy's ex-commanding officer, Jeff McKeever, is part of a band of confederates not willing to admit the war is over. They have stolen $50,000. Wish shoots one of them in the holdup, Decker. Decker stumbles into Favor's camp with the strongbox and dies. McKeever posing as a deputy sheriff along with Jim Newton come for the money. Wish recognizes McKeever as one of the robbers. Newton escapes. The rebel leader Colonel Reed, poisons steers, shoots one of Favor's men, poison the water hole, stampedes the herd with blasting powder, and captures Hey Soos in an attempt to get Favor to give up the money and McKeever.
Episode 26: Mrs. Harmon
Apr 16, 1965
Wish is tired of trail cooking. He quits the drive and befriends a mother and her three boys. She is married to an abusive drunk, Fred Harmon who beats her. At the hotel, Fred tries to beat Wish to within an inch of his life. Mrs. Harmon shoots her husband. Wish takes the blame. Charlie Peg the hotel clerk knows the Mrs. did it and blackmails Wish.
Episode 27: The Calf Women
Apr 30, 1965
Emma Teall and her sister Betsy are following the herd. Ryan an his forty buffalo hunters won't let the herd through to needed grazing, until he pens the buffalo up. Rowdy gives him three days. Wish tells Mushy to take two calves and kill them. Emma relieves Mushy of the calves. He says there may be three more later. Wish reports the milk cows are gone. They followed the calves to Emma's camp. The drovers tip over her wagon. Emma fires a warning shot. Billy Wallace a buffalo hunter calls on Betsy and gets rough with a protesting Emma.
Episode 28: The Spanish Camp
May 7, 1965
The spring that feeds a creek, has been dammed by Dr. John Merritt and his friend Phinn Harper and their men. They are looking for the remains of a 200 year old Spanish expedition, and their treasure chest. Merritt has three to four months to live and has nothing to leave his wife and kids. He quit practicing medicine, but is teaching Phinn. The cattle need the water.
Episode 29: El Hombre Bravo
May 14, 1965
Favor and Mushy are driving six prize bulls toward the American border in Mexico. A band of Mexicans tell Favor they are looking for El Hombre Bravo. General Velasquez's men rope a drive steer and search the wagons for El Hombre Bravo. Favor and Mushy meet Pajarito, a school teacher and eight orphans heading to a mission north of the border. Pajarito wrote pamphlets for the revolutionaries and signed them El Hombre Bravo.
Episode 30: The Gray Rock Hotel
May 21, 1965
Favor brings five of his men, sick from either food or water, into a ghost town to the Gray Rock Hotel. Lottie was on the way to Fort McCloud when her horse went lame. Favor asks Lottie to help care for the five. Favor sends Quince to Gold Ridge for a doctor. Four guys are looking for Lottie. She tries to create dissension among the drovers. Lottie tells Favor she is on the run. Mushy defends Lottie from Marty's advances. Quince falls off his horse. The four find him. Lottie asks Favor to teach her to use a gun.
Season 813 ep. · 1965
Episode 1: Encounter at Boot Hill
Sep 14, 1965
Morgan Kane and his son Jethro hang two drifters who killed his son, Vance. Morgan kills Peters and seriously wounds Ian who tried to stop it. Rowdy takes Ian to Regis for medical attention. He tries unsuccessfully to get the law to investigate Peter's killing. Sheriff Blaine says the drifters broke Vance's neck. Blaine is blackmailing Jethro. The coroner's inquest finds the Kane's innocent. Rowdy tells Morgan he's taking him and his son to Wichita for a fair trial.
Episode 2: Ride a Crooked Mile
Sep 21, 1965 · 1h
Despite his better judgement, Rowdy hires a slick-talking new drover who rides an expensive stallion. When a rich and powerful Texan comes seeking revenge on the drover, Rowdy decides to protect him.
Episode 3: Six Weeks to Bent Fork
Sep 28, 1965
Mr. Fletcher offers Rowdy $6,000 to get 1500 head to Bent Fork in six weeks or less. There is a penalty of $30 for each head that doesn't make it. Lash Whitcomb, one of Fletcher's men is going along as Segundo (#2 man). Lash and Rowdy disagree on which trail to take. Rowdy checks his out. It leads to a box canyon. Rowdy's horse hits a chuckhole and he is thrown and breaks some ribs. Rowdy tells Lash to take over. Ten miles and three days from Bent Fork, Sheriff John Keeley, says there is a sixty day quarantine on Texas cattle.
Episode 4: Walk into Terror
Oct 5, 1965
A mine cave in traps Quince and Simon. New drover Ed says he's found some blasting gel and gun cotton. He and his buddy Jerry will blow them out for $500. It is a perilous journey hauling the unstable gel to the mine in a rickety old wagon.
Episode 5: Escort to Doom
Oct 12, 1965
Rowdy enlists the aid of eight Indians who have been trailing the herd to get to the Little Red River. Their leader, Yellow Sun, looks white. The drovers, particularly Wish doesn't like it. The other Indians, particularly Quadero doesn't like it.
Episode 6: Hostage for Hanging
Oct 19, 1965
Rowdy is held for ransom by a family of crooked horse traders. Quince, Jed, Wish and Simon try to dicker unsuccessfully. The family is led by Ma Gufler. Her two sons are Jesse and dim-witted Max. They prepare to hang Rowdy. Jed rides in to talk things over.
Episode 7: The Vasquez Woman
Oct 26, 1965
Colonel Emilio Vasquez ""buys"" 200 head from Quince, Jed and Simon in Mexico. Jed goes to town to see if the pesos are worth anything. The gringo who runs the town says they're just paper. Emilio's wife, Maria, was left behind and is in the bar. Emilio sneaks into town and kills the gringo, but doesn't get Maria. Jed escapes with Maria. Jed and Emilio argue over the terms of her return.
Episode 8: Clash at Broken Bluff
Nov 2, 1965 · 1h
Rowdy must convince a young widow to allow the herd on her land to protect it from the a norther. She is involved in the suffragette movement. The saloon owner will do anything to stop women from getting the vote. The drovers are allowed to vote if they stick around. The saloon owner buys their votes, but Rowdy has second thoghts.
Episode 9: The Pursuit
Nov 9, 1965
Jed is being pursued by Marshall Hanson Dickson, a well known lawman. Dickson claims Jed Is James Carothers wanted dead of alive for murder in Missouri. Jed says he was cleared of the charge.
Episode 10: Duel at Daybreak
Nov 16, 1965
The new drover, a young southern gentleman, Roman Bedford, has incurred the wrath of the ranch foreman they're picking up cattle from. Roman has paid attention to the ranch owner's daughter, with whom the foreman has intentions. The ranch owner has keep hidden his past from his daughter.
Episode 11: Brush War at Buford
Nov 23, 1965
Major Buford who fought for the south ties his herd in with Rowdy's. He does this so he can cross Duke Aberdeen's land. Duke was a POW in a Confederate prison, and won't let Buford cattle cross his land. The major's son Court hates anything Yankee. Union forces burned the Buford mansion in Virginia, and soon after Mrs. Buford died. Duke sends out phoney stock inspectors that claim many of the cattle are someone else's.
Episode 12: The Testing Post
Nov 30, 1965
An army lieutenant requisitions 100 prime steers and only offers a piece of paper in return. He pulls a gun and Rowdy wings him. Reinforcements come demanding the 100 head. Rowdy goes forty miles to the fort and the major says he can't pay him.
Episode 13: Crossing at White Feather
Dec 7, 1965 · 1h
Rowdy hires Jonas Bolt to guide the herd to and across the river. Rowdy finds Jonas drunk and fires him. The saloon owner tries to trick Rowdy out of a 1000 head using Jonas.

















