The BEST episodes of Rawhide season 2

#1 - Incident of the Druid Curse

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1960

A woman and his father join the drovers, but the drovers don' t know that they're cursed by the druids.

#2 - Incident of the Blue Fire

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1959

A storm with lightning is making the herd nervous. The blue fire of St. Elmo appears on the horns of the steers. Hey Soos says if a stranger should appear, he stops and blesses himself, death will follow. A stranger, Lucky Markley rides in. A clap of thunder and the herd stampedes. Rowdy turns the herd. Lucky says he has thirty some head to sell. Favor says he can't use any scrub cattle, but he'll look at them. Favor says no. Lucky says there is about two dozen Commanches around. Hey Soos says Lucky is the devil. A brave kills a steer the demands Lucky's horse. The Commanches line the ridge. A young buck comes out to talk. He wants the killer of his brother, ten steers, sugar, rifles and tobacco. Lucky offers Favor to leave. He was killed in a stampede. Hey Soos pulls a knife on Lucky. Collins takes over the fight. Rowdy tells Lucky to get out.

#3 - Incident of the Stalking Death

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1959

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.

#4 - Incident of the Shambling Man

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1959

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.

#5 - Incident of the Wanted Painter

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/29/1960

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.

#6 - Incident at Spanish Rock

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1959

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.

#7 - Incident of the Valley in Shadow

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1959

Driving a herd through Cheyenne country, Favor finds out some of his hands may have hired on for more than just the beeves. There is a large reward being offered for a white girl who has been missing since she was a small child.

#8 - Incident at Dangerfield Dip

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1959

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 & Rowdy fear that their cattle are coming down with a deadly disease, so they turn towards the Rodney Dangerfield chemical dipping station, on the widowed rancher’s recommendation.

#9 - Incident of the Devil and His Due

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/1960

Gil is allowed to continue the cattle drive, despite being accused of murder by the victim's wife and son, 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.

#10 - Incident of the Stargazer

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/1/1960

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.

#11 - Incident at the Buffalo Smokehouse

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1959

Mr. Favor is stuck in a house, because the owner of the house is attacked by some men.

#12 - Incident of the Tinker’s Dam

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/5/1960

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.

#13 - Incident of the Murder Steer

Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/13/1960

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.

#14 - Incident of the Haunted Hills

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1959

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.

#15 - Incident at Red River Station

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/15/1960

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.

#16 - Incident at Jacob's Well

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1959

Rowdy is saved from falling down a well by a woman. Later, the woman's family and friends had to manage to steal the drovers' horses.

#17 - Incident of the 13th Man

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1959

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.

#18 - Incident of the Roman Candles

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1959

#19 - Incident of the Day of the Dead

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1959

Rowdy goes to town to pick up the mail for the men and stops a runaway horse. Luisa, a rancher, sees it and tries to get Rowdy to come and work for her.

#20 - Incident of the Deserter

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/29/1960

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.

#21 - Incident of the Night Horse

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1960

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.

#22 - Incident of the Sharpshooter

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/26/1960

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.

#23 - Incident of the 100 Amulets

Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/6/1960

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.

#24 - Incident of the Last Chance

Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 6/10/1960

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

#25 - Incident at Sulphur Creek

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/11/1960

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.