The BEST episodes of Wagon Train season 2
Every episode of Wagon Train season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wagon Train season 2!
Wagon Train followed the trials and tribulations of pioneering families as they set out from the East to carve out a new life in the West soon after the American Civil War. For some of the travelers it was a happy ending, but not for all, which only heightened the drama along the way.
#1 - The Jose Maria Moran Story
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/27/1959
The Major and party find a Pawnee Indian strung up and left to die. Back at the wagon train they find he is not who he appears to be. The mystery deepens as the Shoshonees, who hung him there, are still after him and getting closer.
#2 - The Steve Campden Story
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/13/1959
Flint must find a way to get the wagon train around a snow covered pass. On a scouting trek, he meets a father and son who are willing to help him but they want to hike up the mountain. The adventure ahead has surprises for them all.
#3 - Chuck Wooster, Wagonmaster
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/20/1959
When a big snow halts the train, several of the men disappear mysteriously with no trace of them to be found. After Flint, Major Adams, and Hawks go missing, it's up to Chuck Wooster to lead the train to safety.
#4 - The Ella Lindstrom Story
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1959
Ella Lindstrom loses her husband on the wagon train ride west from Boston. With her seven children she decides to stay the course against the wishes of Major Adams. It gets more complicated when she thinks she is expecting number eight.
#5 - The Kitty Angel Story
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1959
Kitty Angel finds herself not welcome on the wagon train due to her past. When Flint returns to the train toting a sick Indian baby, she has everyone's prejudices to deal with as well as this life threatening illness.
#6 - The Vincent Eaglewood Story
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/15/1959
An educated man from the East tags alongside the wagon train. When he offers to teach school to pay his passage, all goes well until he is kicked off the train and the kids go looking for him - and they are near an Indian camp.
#7 - The Swift Cloud Story
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/8/1959
During an Indian attack on the wagon train, Major Adams spares the life of Swift Cloud, crippled son of the Indian Chief. Adams is shocked to learn that Swift Cloud's condition is the result of a vicious attack by a half-breed. The chief sends his son with the wagon train to go see a city doctor who might be able to cure him.
#8 - The Duke LeMay Story
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/29/1959
Duke Le May, an escaped convict, joins the wagon train under an assumed name. When a deputy shows up to arrest him and is killed, Flint is asked to escort him to the nearest fort for trial but he does all he can to prolong that journey.
#9 - The Andrew Hale Story
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/3/1959
The Major finds an old man in the desert and takes him to the wagon train. He doesn't remember his name but when he's recognized by one of the other passengers, he remembers not just his name but the faith he thought he lost as well.
#10 - The Tent City Story
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1958
When a member of the train is placed in chains after breaking Indian law by killing a buffalo, Major Adams quarrels with Flint who quits and takes a job at nearby Tent City. But White Eagle discovers the dead buffalo and demands justice.
#11 - The Millie Davis Story
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1958
Millie Davis reluctantly takes in an orphaned baby girl. Eight years later the girl's grandmother arrives to retrieve her. But Millie doesn't want to give up the child, so she claims that she and Flint are the parents.
#12 - The Doctor Willoughby Story
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1958
Concerned by one of the passengers on the wagon train, a woman doctor tries to help even though she's hampered further by everyone else who shuns her. Meantime an Indian chief needs doctoring and they don't believe in female medicine men.
#13 - The Jennifer Churchill Story
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1958
Jennifer Churchill, pampered all her life, runs away from a smothering lifestyle and pending marriage, and joins the wagon train. With bounty hunters on her heels, she finds Flint, a man who she wants but doesn't want her.
#14 - The Matthew Lowry Story
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/1/1959
Matthew Lowry seems timid to everyone especially a bully on the wagon train. Riding upon some cholera sick wagons in a pass, they find out who he really is and why he has been acting this way.
#15 - The Dick Richardson Story
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/31/1958
When the wagon horses start to die of a disease, Adams is forced to send two men who are feuding to buy new horses with his emergency money. One of the men's horse returns without him making Adams wonder if he made a mistake.
#16 - The Conchita Vasquez Story
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1959
Suspecting a hurt girl he finds on the trail is part of a group of bandits, Flint cautiously helps her but soon learns she is all he suspects until her guardian is killed and Flint becomes her only protection.
#17 - The Clara Duncan Story
Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/22/1959
Clara Duncan joins the train in a search for her artist fiance. But finding him could lead to trouble, as one of his missing paintings depicting a heinous crime may implicate some of the locals.
#18 - The Kate Parker Story
Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/6/1959
The wagon train pushes ahead when one of the passengers has an accident. With only a wagon between two couples, one person decides to leave with money including some gold coins. They have an accident and the storm's only getting worse.
#19 - The Hunter Malloy Story
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1959
Hunter Malloy and partner get jobs as drivers on the wagon train to rob their boss. Striking gold instead while stopping to repair their wagons, the fever is high as some stop to strike it rich and uncover more than just a few nuggets.
#20 - The Mary Ellen Thomas Story
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1958
Mary Ellen is an orphan traveling west to join family, but members of the train reject her due to her surly disposition. Her only friend is Sally Mayhew, another girl traveling west with her family dying of consumption.
#21 - The Tobias Jones Story
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1958
Major Adams allows two stowaways, Tobias Jones and his young friend Midge, to stay with the train. But Tobias is in trouble due to his drinking, and things get worse when he's accused of murder.
#22 - The Bije Wilcox Story
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1958
After advertising to look for his brother Charles and offering a $5,000 reward, a member of the wagon train gets a response from someone who walks through an Indian party that's pinning them all down. What he finds is not what he expected.
#23 - The Flint McCullough Story
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1959
Flint, in love with a Mormon girl he can't marry, joins the confederate army. When he finds out that he won't be joining any battles and what their real purpose is, it may be too late for him and the girl he loves.
#24 - The Annie Griffith Story
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1959
Flint, seeking safe passage through the mountains, is shot and losing consciousness is dragged to a cabin. Nursed back to health, his savior finds the man who shot him was her husband and Flint had to kill him or be killed.
#25 - The Vivian Carter Story
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1959
Getting set to leave the wagon train, Vivian Carter finds out a friend she knows from the train hoped for more than that. Heading to a new life and her first marriage, she's given some options and even at her age has its surprises.