Season 3

1960–1961

Sep 30, 1960 · 45m

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. Incident of the Challenge

Oct 14, 1960 · 45m

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

E3. 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.

E4. 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.

E5. 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.

E6. Incident on the Road to Yesterday

Nov 18, 1960 · 45m

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

E7. Incident at Superstition Prairie

Dec 2, 1960 · 45m

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

E8. Incident at Poco Tiempo

Dec 9, 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. 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.

E10. Incident of the Buffalo Soldier

Jan 1, 1961 · 45m

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

E11. Incident of the Broken Word

Jan 20, 1961 · 45m

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. Incident at the Top of the World

Jan 27, 1961 · 45m

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

E13. Incident Near the Promised Land

Feb 3, 1961 · 45m

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. Incident of the Big Blowout

Feb 10, 1961 · 45m

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

E15. Incident of the Fish Out of Water

Feb 17, 1961 · 45m

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. Incident on the Road Back

Feb 24, 1961 · 45m

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. Incident of the New Start

Mar 3, 1961 · 45m

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. Incident of the Running Iron

Mar 10, 1961 · 45m

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. Incident Near Gloomy River

Mar 17, 1961 · 45m

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. Incident of the Boomerang

Mar 24, 1961 · 45m

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

E21. Incident of his Brother's Keeper

Mar 31, 1961 · 45m

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. Incident in the Middle of Nowhere

Apr 7, 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. Incident of the Phantom Bugler

Apr 14, 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. Incident of the Lost Idol

Apr 28, 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. Incident of the Running Man

May 5, 1961 · 45m

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. Incident of the Painted Lady

May 12, 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. Incident Before Black Pass

May 19, 1961 · 60m

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

E28. Incident of the Blackstorms

May 26, 1961 · 45m

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

E29. Incident of the Night on the Town

Jun 2, 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. Incident of the Wager on Payday

Jun 16, 1961 · 45m

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.