The BEST episodes of Wagon Train season 3
Every episode of Wagon Train season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Wagon Train season 3!
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 Greenhorn Story
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1959
At the beginning of any wagon train trip, the challenges faced by everyone turns a greenhorn into a seasoned veteran, even if those may mean death of those they love or some other loss.
#2 - The Estaban Zamora Story
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1959
Flint find a young man bleeding to death and a knife nearby. He takes the body to sheriff who identifies the man as the youngest Zamora brother. His father is on the train from Spain. He feels duty bound to kill the murderer.
#3 - The Tom Tuckett Story
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1960
Ever since he was young, Tom Tuckett has been sent to good schools and looked after by an unknown benefactor. When he joins the wagon train he feels he's about to find out who that is but it isn't who he imagined.
#4 - The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1960
Laurie and Ricky Bell uproot and go West, leaving their comforts in Baltimore. When she announces she is pregnant, he is less than happy as he feels she has just made their lives more complicated especially where it concerns his needs.
#5 - The C.L. Harding Story
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1959
A reporter has joined the wagon train. When the Major finds out he is a she, he finds his hands full especially when her looks and curiosity jeopardize everyone's safety and their right to vote.
#6 - The Ruth Marshall Story
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/30/1959
As the wagon train moves through Sioux territory, a man named Marshall asks for help in finding his daughter, Ruth, who apparently was taken by Indians following a raid eleven years ago. The girl would now be 19 years old. Flint McCullough goes in search of the girl, is injured in an ambush by a lone Indian, and is treated by a blue-eyed white woman living with four wolves. The woman communicates only through sign-language and is held in reverence by the local Sioux. Meanwhile the Indian who ambushed Flint and was wounded in the process reports back to his father, Red Cloud. Red Cloud learns that the ""Woman Who Lives with Wolves"" is treating a white man and orders Flint to be brought to his camp for possible punishment. The Wolf Woman intervenes and has Flint returned to the wagon train along with a book which bears the name ""Ruth Marshall"" on its flyleaf.
#7 - The Joshua Gilliam Story
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1960
Bill and the Major find a man lying hurt, a meal for the buzzards. When he meets an innocent woman on the wagon train who has an inheritance waiting for her, he shows other skills besides being just a schoolteacher and her mother is wary.
#8 - The Benjamin Burns Story
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1960
One dry water hole is normal but when the wagon train has two, Flint and Ben Burns lead a party to find a legend that only the Indians speak of, Shining Water. Troubles await them but the worst may be a too green city boy.
#9 - The Larry Hanify Story
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1960
On his deathbed, Joe asks Flint to look after his 17-year old son Larry Hanify and get him to California. There was one catch. His latest escapade put him in jail awaiting trial for armed robbery.
#10 - The St. Nicholas Story
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/23/1959
Almost Christmas eve, the wagon train deals with a happy time, the perils that go with hostile Indians and a little lost boy who may have already been captured by those same hostiles.
#11 - The Danny Benedict Story
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1959
He says his name is Tom Smith but a young man Major Adams meets on the trail refuses to join the wagon train and won't say why. When he does find out he meets an old friend and why the boy is so tortured.
#12 - The Stagecoach Story
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1959
The men are returning to St. Louis by stagecoach except for Flint - until he becomes the driver to help a friend. They are forced to take a detour to Mexico by other passengers - one of whom denies knowing Flint who is in love with her.
#13 - The Clayton Tucker Story
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/10/1960
Taking a dangerous route through the desert to join up with the wagon train, a small band of settlers take a turn for the worse when they lose the one man leading them, their scout, and now differ on where they need to go now.
#14 - The Charlene Brenton Story
Season 3 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/8/1960
A baby girl sure has a rough start when she arrives on the stage with her dead mother. Plague is what people think killed her and then Charlie Wooster steps in to try to help - and well, you can imagine where it went from there.
#15 - The Jonas Murdock Story
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/13/1960
Out of meat and low on food, the wagon train must not kill any wildlife or all will face the wrath of the local Indians. The one holdout is Jonas Murdoch who has always lived outside the rules and doesn't consider a rabbit an issue.
#16 - The Maggie Hamilton Story
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/6/1960
When their daughter runs away from the wagon train, the Hamiltons hire Flint to bring her back. With renegades in the area, he soon discovers how spoiled Maggie really is and they still manage to make it back in one piece.
#17 - Trial for Murder (1)
Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/27/1960
When a well thought of member of the wagon train is found dead, Adams needs to prevent mob rule and make sure a lawful trial takes place. The accused who was not well liked is found passed out with the rifle used in the murder.
#18 - The Amos Gibbon Story
Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/20/1960
After an argument with Major Adams, Flint leaves the wagon train and cozies up to a bar at a nearby town. What he doesn't know is the locals are shanghaiing strangers for slave labor in the mine and no one on the train knows where he went.
#19 - The Colonel Harris Story
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1960
Flint goes to Fort Young to see the Harris family and Bowman Lewis who were friends from his youth. He finds Mrs. Harris dead and her husband swearing to wipe out all Indians including Lewis who leads the Comanche and his mother, Princess.
#20 - The Vittorio Bottecelli Story
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1959
The King orders his womanizing nephew to San Francisco. He joins the wagon train but causes the Major problems as the husbands are complaining but he may have lost his heart to someone who understands.
#21 - The Elizabeth McQueeny Story
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1959
Elizabeth McQueeny is traveling with her girls, heading to a finishing school in the West. When her real purpose becomes known, all the females want her gone but her worth to all shows itself before that can happen.
#22 - The Cappy Darrin Story
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1959
Old salt Cappy Darrin is on the train with his orphaned grandson Tuck. But Cappy's daughter granted custody of Tuck to his uncle, and as their parting nears Cappy finds he is reluctant to let Tuck go.
#23 - The Martha Barham Story
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1959
Flint and a longtime Sioux Indian friend reunite but trouble is brewing as the Cheyenne are on the warpath and in their way is Fort Hastings, an old flame of his and her new Army Captain fiancé.
#24 - The Tracy Sadler Story
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1960
David Forest always believed his father to be as he claimed. When Tracy Sadler joins the wagon train his beliefs are altered when he slowly and painfully learns the truth about his past.
#25 - Dr. Swift Cloud
Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/25/1960
Thinking he is not welcome by the white man or his people, an educated Chiracua Indian returns to find prejudices among both of them and must find a way to overcome all of them before it is too late.