Season 5

1962–1963

Sep 21, 1962 · 45m

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. Incident of the Hunter

Sep 28, 1962 · 45m

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. Incident of the Portrait

Oct 5, 1962 · 45m

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. Incident at Cactus Wells

Oct 12, 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. Incident of the Prodigal Son

Oct 19, 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. Incident of the Four Horsemen

Oct 26, 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. Incident of the Lost Woman

Nov 2, 1962 · 60m

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

E8. Incident of the Dogfaces

Nov 9, 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. Incident of the Wolvers

Nov 16, 1962 · 60m

Rowdy hires wolfers Abner Cannon and his children.

E10. Incident at Sugar Creek

Nov 23, 1962 · 60m

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

E11. Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom

Nov 30, 1962 · 45m

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

E12. Incident of the Querencias

Dec 7, 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. Incident at Quivira

Dec 14, 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. Incident of Decision

Dec 28, 1962 · 45m

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. Incident of the Buryin' Men

Jan 4, 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. Incident of the Trail's End

Jan 11, 1963 · 60m

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

E17. Incident at Spider Rock

Jan 18, 1963 · 60m

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

E18. Incident of the Mountain Man

Jan 25, 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. Incident at Crooked Hat

Feb 1, 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. Incident of Judgment Day

Feb 8, 1963 · 60m

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

E21. Incident of the Gallows Tree

Feb 22, 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. Incident of the Married Widow

Mar 1, 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. Incident of the Pale Rider

Mar 15, 1963 · 60m

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

E24. Incident of the Comanchero

Mar 22, 1963 · 45m

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

E25. Incident of the Clown

Mar 29, 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. Incident of the Black Ace

Apr 12, 1963 · 60m

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

E27. Incident of the Hostages

Apr 19, 1963 · 60m

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

E28. Incident of White Eyes

May 3, 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. Incident at Rio Doloroso

May 10, 1963 · 60m

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

E30. Incident at Alkali Sink

May 24, 1963 · 60m

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