Rawhide

E1

1. Incident of the Tumbleweed

9 Jan 1959 · 52m

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.

E2

2. Incident at Alabaster Plain

16 Jan 1959 · 52m

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.

E3

3. Incident with an Executioner

23 Jan 1959 · 52m

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.

E4

4. Incident of the Widowed Dove

30 Jan 1959 · 52m

Rowdy tries to help Clovis leave her sheriff husband.

E5

5. Incident On the Edge of Madness

6 Feb 1959 · 52m

A fanatical Southern loyalist lures drovers from Favor and Rowdy with tales of founding a new Confederate empire; guest Lon Chaney Jr.

E6

6. Incident of the Power and the Plow

13 Feb 1959 · 45m

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.

E7

7. Incident at Barker Springs

20 Feb 1959 · 45m

Brazo, a retired gunfighter, attempts to keep his kid brother from taking up the family business.

E8

8. Incident West of Lano

27 Feb 1959 · 45m

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.

E9

9. Incident of the Town in Terror

4 Mar 1959 · 45m

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.

E10

10. Incident of the Golden Calf

13 Mar 1959 · 45m

Brother Bent the newest drover sparks gold fever, when he flashes a huge nuggett.

E11

11. Incident of the Coyote Weed

20 Mar 1959 · 45m

Banditos inside and outside threaten the herd and the drovers.

E12

12. Incident of the Chubasco

3 Apr 1959 · 45m

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.

E13

13. Incident of the Curious Street

10 Apr 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.

E14

14. Incident of the Dog Days

17 Apr 1959 · 60m

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.

E15

15. Incident of the Calico Gun

24 Apr 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.

E16

16. Incident of the Misplaced Indians

1 May 1959

Rowdy finds two indians dead outside a house. Amelia Spaulding is inside singing and making candy.

E17

17. Incident of Fear in the Streets

8 May 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.

E18

18. Incident Below the Brazos

15 May 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.

E19

19. Incident of the Dry Drive

22 May 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.

E20

20. Incident of the Judas Trap

5 Jun 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.

E21

21. Incident in No Man's Land

12 Jun 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.

E22

22. Incident of a Burst of Evil

26 Jun 1959 · 60m

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.

E1

1. Incident of the Day of the Dead

18 Sep 1959 · 60m

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.

E2

2. Incident of the Roman Candles

25 Sep 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.

E3

3. Incident at Dangerfield Dip

2 Oct 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.

E4

4. Incident of the Shambling Man

9 Oct 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.

E5

5. Incident at Jacob's Well

16 Oct 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.

E6

6. Incident of the 13th Man

23 Oct 1959 · 60m

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.

E7

7. Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse

30 Oct 1959

While scouting for a river crossing, Favor meets a hostile smokehouse-owner and his wife.

E8

8. Incident of the Haunted Hills

6 Nov 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.

E9

9. Incident of the Stalking Death

13 Nov 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.

E10

10. Incident of the Valley in Shadow

20 Nov 1959 · 60m

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.

E11

11. Incident of the Blue Fire

11 Dec 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.

E12

12. Incident at Spanish Rock

18 Dec 1959 · 60m

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.

E13

13. Incident of the Druid Curse

8 Jan 1960 · 60m

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".

E14

14. Incident at Red River Station

15 Jan 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.

E15

15. Incident of the Devil and His Due

22 Jan 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.

E16

16. Incident of the Wanted Painter

29 Jan 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.

E17

17. Incident of the Tinker's Dam

5 Feb 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.

E18

18. Incident of the Night Horse

19 Feb 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.

E19

19. Incident of the Sharpshooter

26 Feb 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.

E20

20. Incident of the Dust Flower

4 Mar 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.

E21

21. Incident at Sulphur Creek

11 Mar 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.

E22

22. Incident of the Champagne Bottles

18 Mar 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.

E23

23. Incident of the Stargazer

1 Apr 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.

E24

24. Incident of the Dancing Death

8 Apr 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.

E25

25. Incident of the Arana Sacar

22 Apr 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.

E26

26. Incident of the Deserter

29 Apr 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.

E27

27. Incident of the 100 Amulets

6 May 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.

E28

28. Incident of the Murder Steer

13 May 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.

E29

29. Incident of the Music Maker

20 May 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.

E30

30. Incident of the Silent Web

3 Jun 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.

E31

31. Incident of the Last Chance

10 Jun 1960

Gil takes a protective interest in a stranded tenderfoot couple. Rowdy is interested in the wife.

E32

32. Incident in the Garden of Eden

17 Jun 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.

E1

1. Incident at Rojo Canyon

30 Sep 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.

E2

2. Incident of the Challenge

14 Oct 1960

Favor gets knocked off his horse and knocked out. He wakes to Aztec Indian who has traveled 1500 miles to find a princess.

E3

3. Incident at Dragoon Crossing

21 Oct 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.

E4

4. Incident of the Night Visitor

4 Nov 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.

E5

5. Incident of the Slavemaster

11 Nov 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.

E6

6. Incident on the Road to Yesterday

18 Nov 1960

Ralph Bartlet asks Favor to return $250 to a stage line he held up and to check on his first love.

E7

7. Incident at Superstition Prairie

2 Dec 1960

Wish finds an indian left to die in a cave, and rescues him.

E8

8. Incident at Poco Tiempo

9 Dec 1960 · 60m

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.

E9

9. Incident of the Captive

16 Dec 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.

E10

10. Incident of the Buffalo Soldier

1 Jan 1961

Rowdy chases after a buffalo soldier who has killed another soldier and has taken off on his horse.

E11

11. Incident of the Broken Word

20 Jan 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.

E12

12. Incident at the Top of the World

27 Jan 1961

There's a new drover who has just spent five years in an army hospital and is addicted to morphine.

E13

13. Incident Near the Promised Land

3 Feb 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.

E14

14. Incident of the Big Blowout

10 Feb 1961

The drovers celebrate the end of the drive. Rowdy is mistaken for another man.

E15

15. Incident of the Fish Out of Water

17 Feb 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.

E16

16. Incident on the Road Back

24 Feb 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.

E17

17. Incident of the New Start

3 Mar 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.

E18

18. Incident of the Running Iron

10 Mar 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.

E19

19. Incident Near Gloomy River

17 Mar 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.

E20

20. Incident of the Boomerang

24 Mar 1961

Ruthann Harper and Richard Goffage are taking 200 head of cattle to Australia. Ruthann has a questionable past.

E21

21. Incident of his Brother's Keeper

31 Mar 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.

E22

22. Incident in the Middle of Nowhere

7 Apr 1961 · 60m

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.

E23

23. Incident of the Phantom Bugler

14 Apr 1961 · 60m

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.

E24

24. Incident of the Lost Idol

28 Apr 1961 · 60m

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.

E25

25. Incident of the Running Man

5 May 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.

E26

26. Incident of the Painted Lady

12 May 1961 · 60m

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.

E27

27. Incident Before Black Pass

19 May 1961 · 60m

Pete and Rowdy are captured by the Kiowa. Two other indians want to accompany the herd to Black Pass.

E28

28. Incident of the Blackstorms

26 May 1961

Sky Blackstorm sends a message to the River City sheriff with Mushy. He's coming tomorrow at sun up for his son Danny.

E29

29. Incident of the Night on the Town

2 Jun 1961 · 60m

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.

E30

30. Incident of the Wager on Payday

16 Jun 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.

E1

1. Rio Salado

29 Sep 1961 · 48m

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.

E2

2. The Sendoff

2 Oct 1961 · 48m

The drovers are beating the scrub for strays. Favor finds wagon remains and twelve graves.

E3

3. The Long Shakedown

13 Oct 1961

An overbearing Favor leads to many drovers quitting. Five replacements stir trouble.

E4

4. Judgment at Hondo Seco

20 Oct 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.

E5

5. The Lost Tribe

27 Oct 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.

E6

6. The Inside Man

3 Nov 1961 · 60m

Craddock and Clay Forrester plot to steal the herd. Shelia Brewster is running away from her army fiancee.

E7

7. The Black Sheep

10 Nov 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.

E8

8. The Prairie Elephant

17 Nov 1961 · 60m

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.

E9

9. The Little Fishes

24 Nov 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.

E10

10. The Blue Spy

8 Dec 1961 · 60m

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.

E11

11. The Gentleman's Gentleman

15 Dec 1961

Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll. Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.

E12

12. Twenty-Five Santa Clauses

22 Dec 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.

E13

13. The Long Count

5 Jan 1962 · 60m

Martha Hastings is running a way station for outlaws. Rowdy, Pete and Wish are hired as census takers.

E14

14. The Captain's Wife

12 Jan 1962 · 60m

Nora Holloway is ambitious for her captain husband to advance. She resorts to lying.

E15

15. The Peddler

19 Jan 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.

E16

16. The Woman Trap

26 Jan 1962

Pete and Rowdy find a whole herd of good looking women heading to Fort Worth to get married.

E17

17. The Boss's Daughters

2 Feb 1962 · 60m

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.

E18

18. The Deserters' Patrol

9 Feb 1962 · 60m

The indians want to trade six soldiers they hold for thier Chief. Favor is commissioned as a captain to make the exchange.

E19

19. The Greedy Town

16 Feb 1962 · 60m

Ada Randolph offers the town $300,000 if they find her dead son, a convicted murderer innocent, and run the sheriff out of town.

E20

20. Grandma's Money

23 Feb 1962 · 60m

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.

E21

21. The Pitchwagon

2 Mar 1962 · 60m

When Frank is killed by indians, a collection is taken for his family. Clay suggests a poker game to run it up.

E22

22. Hostage Child

9 Mar 1962 · 60m

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.

E23

23. The Immigrants

16 Mar 1962 · 60m

Quince, Clay and Wish are captured and told by Count Ulrich they are his property and will work on his manor house.

E24

24. The Child-Woman

23 Mar 1962 · 60m

Mushy's cousin asks him to take her sister to his mom, to get out of the saloons. She doesn't want to go.

E25

25. A Woman's Place

30 Mar 1962 · 60m

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.

E26

26. Reunion

6 Apr 1962 · 60m

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.

E27

27. House of the Hunter

20 Apr 1962 · 60m

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.

E28

28. Gold Fever

4 May 1962 · 60m

Hosea Brewer has been prospecting Lost Mine ten years after everyone has left. The thought of gold and his three daughters attract the drovers.

E29

29. The Devil and the Deep Blue

11 May 1962 · 60m

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.

E30

30. Abilene

18 May 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.

E1

1. Incident of El Toro

21 Sep 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.

E2

2. Incident of the Hunter

28 Sep 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.

E3

3. Incident of the Portrait

5 Oct 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.

E4

4. Incident at Cactus Wells

12 Oct 1962 · 60m

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.

E5

5. Incident of the Prodigal Son

19 Oct 1962 · 60m

Sam Hargas finds a half baked, half starved greenhorn, Ben Whitney IV. His horse stepped in a chuck hole. He's a rich brat.

E6

6. Incident of the Four Horsemen

26 Oct 1962 · 60m

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.

E7

7. Incident of the Lost Woman

2 Nov 1962 · 60m

Favor finds a woman, Lissa Hobson, still alive but not by much, and her baby, Tad.

E8

8. Incident of the Dogfaces

9 Nov 1962 · 60m

Rowdy,Quince and Clay help out three soldiers being attacked by Indians. They were sent to break the treaty with Broken Bow.

E9

9. Incident of the Wolvers

16 Nov 1962 · 60m

Rowdy hires wolfers Abner Cannon and his children.

E10

10. Incident at Sugar Creek

23 Nov 1962 · 60m

An injured ex-con Sam Garrett is refused treatment by his home town.

E11

11. Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom

30 Nov 1962

Rowdy gets drugged in a bar with Shelia, the bar owner's girl and wakes up married to her.

E12

12. Incident of the Querencias

7 Dec 1962 · 60m

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.

E13

13. Incident at Quivira

14 Dec 1962 · 60m

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.

E14

14. Incident of Decision

28 Dec 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.

E15

15. Incident of the Buryin' Men

4 Jan 1963 · 60m

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.

E16

16. Incident of the Trail's End

11 Jan 1963 · 60m

Harry Maxton has glaucoma. Gil offers Harry a job to Rowdy's surprise.

E17

17. Incident at Spider Rock

18 Jan 1963 · 60m

Lola's saloon is watering the booze and cheating the drovers. The supplies Wish bought are bad.

E18

18. Incident of the Mountain Man

25 Jan 1963 · 60m

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.

E19

19. Incident at Crooked Hat

1 Feb 1963 · 60m

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.

E20

20. Incident of Judgment Day

8 Feb 1963 · 60m

Rowdy's ex-commanding officer, Captain Cabot convenes a make shift courts-martial for him in a ghost town.

E21

21. Incident of the Gallows Tree

22 Feb 1963 · 60m

In Cottonwood, at the Pair-A-Dice Saloon, Qunice gets in a fight with Major Courtney. Jim swears he'll kill him.

E22

22. Incident of the Married Widow

1 Mar 1963 · 60m

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.

E23

23. Incident of the Pale Rider

15 Mar 1963 · 60m

The new man is a dead ringer for the man Rowdy shot in a Wells Fargo holdup.

E24

24. Incident of the Comanchero

22 Mar 1963

Sisters Benaventura and Teresa cut Maria Jose Chappela off an indian torture rack.

E25

25. Incident of the Clown

29 Mar 1963 · 60m

Morris G. Stevens, a failed actor, toured the world as a clown. Now a philologist he wants to create a Comanche dictionary.

E26

26. Incident of the Black Ace

12 Apr 1963 · 60m

A gypsy tells Wish's fortune he draws the death card three times.

E27

27. Incident of the Hostages

19 Apr 1963 · 60m

Rowdy buys three white children from the Arapahos that have been raised by the Apache.

E28

28. Incident of White Eyes

3 May 1963 · 60m

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.

E29

29. Incident at Rio Doloroso

10 May 1963 · 60m

Don Francisco Maldonaldo sentences Favor and Rowdy to die for the death of his son.

E30

30. Incident at Alkali Sink

24 May 1963 · 60m

Burt Harvey is accused of cowardice at Gettysburg by his new father-in-law.

E1

1. Incident of the Red Wind

26 Sep 1963 · 60m

Favor tells Rowdy to let Lou Bowdart drive the herd up the San Marcos trail.

E2

2. Incident of Iron Bull

3 Oct 1963

Joseph a Comanche is hired after returning the remuda. Colonel Macklin and Sargeant Graogan are accompanting the herd as far as Waycross.

E3

3. Incident at El Crucero

10 Oct 1963 · 60m

Rose Cornelius and her ten brothers have fenced off the trail Favor needs to cross to get the herd to water.

E4

4. Incident of the Travellin' Man

17 Oct 1963 · 60m

Jagger is fished out of the river with leg irons on. His story doesn't match that of Matt Harger.

E5

5. Incident at Paradise

24 Oct 1963

Rowdy rescues nester Higgins from being used for target practice and gets involved in his fight to stay on his farm.

E6

6. Incident at Farragut Pass

31 Oct 1963 · 60m

In return for crossing her land to water, E.J. Farragut wants Favor to hire her grandson Billy.

E7

7. Incident at Two Graves

7 Nov 1963 · 60m

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.

E8

8. Incident of the Rawhiders

14 Nov 1963 · 60m

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.

E9

9. Incident of the Prophecy

21 Nov 1963 · 60m

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.

E10

10. Incident at Confidence Creek

28 Nov 1963 · 60m

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.

E11

11. Incident of the Death Dancer

5 Dec 1963 · 60m

Carlock has been tracking an African lion for four years. Favor hires him to get the lion. Mushy wants to be a hunter.

E12

12. Incident of the Wild Deuces

12 Dec 1963 · 60m

When Mushy wins $1500 at Lorelei's Trailbalazer playing seven card stud deuces wild his troubles begin.

E13

13. Incident of the Geisha

19 Dec 1963 · 60m

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.

E14

14. Incident at Ten Trees

2 Jan 1964 · 60m

The drovers find a young white woman dressed as an indian, babbling.

E15

15. Incident of the Rusty Shotgun

9 Jan 1964

Three brothers think Wish is their sister's intended.

E16

16. Incident of the Midnight Cave

16 Jan 1964

Wish nearly falls off the high trail and awakes blind.

E17

17. Incident of the Dowry Dundee

23 Jan 1964 · 60m

Rowdy and Quince come across a wee lass, with for huge bulls and a wagon of heirlooms.

E18

18. Incident at Gila Flats

30 Jan 1964 · 60m

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.

E19

19. Incident of the Pied Piper

6 Feb 1964 · 60m

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.

E20

20. Incident of the Swindler

20 Feb 1964 · 60m

An old ""friend"" of Wish's tells him he is a wanted man for a murder in New Orleans thirteen years ago.

E21

21. Incident of the Wanderer

27 Feb 1964 · 60m

Michob, a peddler, comes out of a rain storm, bone dry. Things begin to go wrong and he is labeled a jinx.

E22

22. Incident at Zebulon

5 Mar 1964 · 60m

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.

E23

23. Incident at Hourglass

12 Mar 1964 · 60m

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.

E24

24. Incident at the Odyssey

26 Mar 1964 · 60m

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.

E25

25. Incident of the Banker

2 Apr 1964 · 60m

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.

E26

26. Incident at Deadhorse (1)

16 Apr 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.

E27

27. Incident at Deadhorse (2)

23 Apr 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.

E28

28. Incident of the Gilded Goddess

30 Apr 1964 · 60m

Rowdy's old acquaintance, Louise Temple is on the run for killing a sheriff. She ran the Temple Of Gold gambling hall.

E29

29. Incident at Seven Fingers

7 May 1964 · 60m

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.

E30

30. Incident of the Peyote Cup

14 May 1964 · 60m

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.

E1

1. The Race

25 Sep 1964 · 60m

Rowdy quits and gets his own herd and races Favor to the railhead.

E2

2. The Enormous Fist

2 Oct 1964 · 60m

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.

E3

3. Piney

9 Oct 1964 · 60m

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.

E4

4. The Lost Herd

16 Oct 1964 · 60m

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.

E5

5. A Man Called Mushy

23 Oct 1964 · 60m

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.

E6

6. Canliss

30 Oct 1964

Gurd Canliss an aging hired gun, has Don Miguel as his next target. Gurd's wife Augusta and Favor try to stop it.

E7

7. Damon's Road (1)

13 Nov 1964 · 60m

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.

E8

8. Damon's Road (2)

30 Nov 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.

E9

9. The Backshooter

27 Nov 1964 · 60m

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.

E10

10. Corporal Dasovik

4 Dec 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.

E11

11. The Photographer

11 Dec 1964

A photograher leads an unsuspecting Rowdy into a den of thieves.

E12

12. No Dogs or Drovers

18 Dec 1964 · 60m

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.

E13

13. The Meeting

1 Jan 1965 · 60m

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.

E14

14. The Book

8 Jan 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.

E15

15. Josh

15 Jan 1965 · 60m

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.

E16

16. A Time for Waiting

22 Jan 1965 · 60m

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. .

E17

17. Moment in the Sun

29 Jan 1965 · 60m

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.

E18

18. Texas Fever

5 Feb 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.

E19

19. Blood Harvest

12 Feb 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.

E20

20. The Violet Land

5 Mar 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.

E21

21. The Winter Soldier

12 Mar 1965 · 60m

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.

E22

22. Prairie Fire

19 Mar 1965 · 60m

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.

E23

23. Retreat

26 Mar 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.

E24

24. Empty Sleeve

2 Apr 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.

E25

25. The Last Order

9 Apr 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.

E26

26. Mrs. Harmon

16 Apr 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.

E27

27. The Calf Women

30 Apr 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.

E28

28. The Spanish Camp

7 May 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.

E29

29. El Hombre Bravo

14 May 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.

E30

30. The Gray Rock Hotel

21 May 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.

E1

1. Encounter at Boot Hill

14 Sep 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.

E2

2. Ride a Crooked Mile

21 Sep 1965 · 60m

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.

E3

3. Six Weeks to Bent Fork

28 Sep 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.

E4

4. Walk into Terror

5 Oct 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.

E5

5. Escort to Doom

12 Oct 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.

E6

6. Hostage for Hanging

19 Oct 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.

E7

7. The Vasquez Woman

26 Oct 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.

E8

8. Clash at Broken Bluff

2 Nov 1965 · 60m

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.

E9

9. The Pursuit

9 Nov 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.

E10

10. Duel at Daybreak

16 Nov 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.

E11

11. Brush War at Buford

23 Nov 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.

E12

12. The Testing Post

30 Nov 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.

E13

13. Crossing at White Feather

7 Dec 1965 · 60m

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.