The BEST episodes written by Allen H. Miner
#1 - The Bonnie Brooke Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 19
Don Brooke is desperate for money for his pregnant wife Bonnie, who's condition is too delicate for the long trip without more medical care so he seeks a bank loan. When he sees an opportunity at the bank, it leads to tragedy.
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#2 - The Ella Lindstrom Story
Wagon Train - Season 2 - Episode 18
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.
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#3 - The John Augustus Story
Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 5
John Augustus in a game of cards with a Chinese merchant wins a beautiful Chinese girl. But when he takes her on the wagon train, other passengers ask Hale to have him and the girl kicked off the train for their "indecent" relationship.
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#4 - The Antone Rose Story
Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 35
Invalid rancher Henry Ludlow is so determined that daughter Judy not marry Basque sheepherder Antone Rose that he sells his land and joins the wagon train to head west. When Antone learns of this, he joins the train as well to marry her.
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#5 - The Story of Cain
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 13
While scouting Coop nearly dies after finding a man near death from lack of water who has found a major gold strike. The man decides to let the wagon train share in his windfall but later reneges resulting in disaster for him and Coop.
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#6 - The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story
Wagon Train - Season 3 - Episode 20
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.
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#7 - The Kitty Pryer Story
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 10
Kitty Pryer finds herself in a bigamous marriage to Victor Harp who asks her to join him on the wagon train posing as the wife of a friend until he can divorce his wife. However, Victor's change of plans puts Kitty in unique peril.
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#8 - The Sam Pulaski Story
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 8
On the train Coop is falling for the sister of the man running a gang who beat and robbed Coop in Hell's Kitchen in Brooklyn. Coop believes the man who says he is going west to change but his goons are still plying their scam on the train.
#9 - Last Circle Up
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 32
As the wagon train approaches the end of the trail, Hale's crew and passengers deal with birth, death, romance, a clash of different faiths, anger, gambling, a medical emergency, and a cooking contest as they prepare to separate.
#10 - The Maggie Hamilton Story
Wagon Train - Season 3 - Episode 26
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.
#11 - The Elizabeth McQueeny Story
Wagon Train - Season 3 - Episode 5
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.
#12 - The Bettina May Story
Wagon Train - Season 5 - Episode 12
Bettina May leads three generations of her family across the plains. Other members of the wagon train as well as some family members become concerned with her over bearing nature and the level of control she exerts on the family.
#13 - The Heather and Hamish Story
Wagon Train - Season 6 - Episode 29
Samuel MacIntosh picks Hamish Browne to marry his daughter Heather before the two have met. Heather is a naive young girl who thinks she can talk to animals, while Hamish is a backwoods boy who cares for his livestock more than for women.
#14 - The Stark Bluff Story
Wagon Train - Season 7 - Episode 29
Duke stops by the town of Stark Bluff looking for a friend and his wife who had formerly been on the wagon train. He finds out that the friend is dead, and his wife has been forced to work for ruthless saloon owner Zeb Stark, who bosses the town, including the judge and sheriff. When Duke tries to help her he is framed for killing a deputy, and Stark uses Duke's life as leverage to force the woman to marry him.
#15 - The Hector Heatherton Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 13
Charlie has finally found someone else who shares his dream of man being able to fly, henpecked inventor Hector Heatherton, who has been working on an idea for building a flying machine so Charlie volunteers to build a machine for Hector.
#16 - The Betsy Blee Smith Story
Wagon Train - Season 8 - Episode 22
Despite the advice of some Coop decides to visit former girlfriend Eloise Blee, but finds Eloise gone, and instead winds up being talked into posing as her twin sister Betsy's missing husband and father of her baby daughter.