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.
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.
Guest Stars:
Mark Stevens, Gregory Walcott, Hal Baylor
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.
Guest Stars:
Emile Meyer, John Ireland, Nina Shipman, Ted de Corsia
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.
Guest Stars:
Keenan Wynn, Ron Hagerthy, Don Haggerty, Henry Wills
Sam Hargas finds a half baked, half starved greenhorn, Ben Whitney IV. His horse stepped in a chuck hole. He's a rich brat.
Guest Stars:
Gene Evans
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.
Guest Stars:
Roberto Contreras, Ron Hayes, John Dehner, James Griffith, Robert J. Wilke
Favor finds a woman, Lissa Hobson, still alive but not by much, and her baby, Tad.
Guest Stars:
Hampton Fancher, Harry Dean Stanton, Fay Spain, R.G. Armstrong
Rowdy,Quince and Clay help out three soldiers being attacked by Indians. They were sent to break the treaty with Broken Bow.
Guest Stars:
John Doucette, James Whitmore, Steve Brodie, Ford Rainey, William Wellman Jr.
Rowdy hires wolfers Abner Cannon and his children.
Guest Stars:
Paul Carr, Dan Duryea
An injured ex-con Sam Garrett is refused treatment by his home town.
Guest Stars:
Charles Herbert, Everett Sloane, Arthur Franz, Beverly Garland, James Westerfield
Rowdy gets drugged in a bar with Shelia, the bar owner's girl and wakes up married to her.
Guest Stars:
Ruta Lee, Harry Lauter, Ed Nelson
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.
Guest Stars:
Edward Andrews, Hal Baylor
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.
Guest Stars:
John Dierkes, Royal Dano, William Henry, Claude Akins
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.
Guest Stars:
Sheila Bromley, Carlos Romero
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.
Guest Stars:
Constance Ford, King Donovan, William R. Thompkins, Richard Devon, Nick Dimitri
Harry Maxton has glaucoma. Gil offers Harry a job to Rowdy's surprise.
Guest Stars:
Glenn Strange, William R. Thompkins, Harold J. Stone, George Brenlin
Lola's saloon is watering the booze and cheating the drovers. The supplies Wish bought are bad.
Guest Stars:
James Best, Susan Oliver, Lon Chaney Jr., Mary Beth Hughes, William Phipps
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.
Guest Stars:
Pat Crowley, Robert Middleton, Roy Barcroft, Robert J. Wilke
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.
Guest Stars:
Parley Baer, James Gregory, Harlan Warde, Jeanne Cooper
Rowdy's ex-commanding officer, Captain Cabot convenes a make shift courts-martial for him in a ghost town.
Guest Stars:
Claude Rains, John Dehner
In Cottonwood, at the Pair-A-Dice Saloon, Qunice gets in a fight with Major Courtney. Jim swears he'll kill him.
Guest Stars:
Judson Pratt, Gregory Walcott, William Henry, Beverly Garland
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.
Guest Stars:
Dabbs Greer, Sheila Bromley, Robert B. Williams, Don Haggerty
The new man is a dead ringer for the man Rowdy shot in a Wells Fargo holdup.
Guest Stars:
Jackie Searl, Chubby Johnson, Albert Salmi
Sisters Benaventura and Teresa cut Maria Jose Chappela off an indian torture rack.
Guest Stars:
Robert Loggia, Joseph V. Perry, Christopher Dark, Virginia Gregg
Morris G. Stevens, a failed actor, toured the world as a clown. Now a philologist he wants to create a Comanche dictionary.
Guest Stars:
Eddie Bracken, Harry Lauter
A gypsy tells Wish's fortune he draws the death card three times.
Guest Stars:
Robert Strauss, Walter Slezak, Karen Sharpe, William R. Thompkins
Rowdy buys three white children from the Arapahos that have been raised by the Apache.
Guest Stars:
Morgan Brittany, Rodolfo Acosta, Joseph V. Perry, Naomi Stevens
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.
Guest Stars:
Nehemiah Persoff, Nita Talbot, John Vivyan, Diana Millay, William Schallert
Don Francisco Maldonaldo sentences Favor and Rowdy to die for the death of his son.
Guest Stars:
Michael Ansara, Madlyn Rhue, Martín Garralaga, Cesar Romero, Carlos Romero

13 Episodes