Bronco: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Bronco Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Game at the Beacon Club
Sep 22, 1959
Bronco unwittingly introduces a demure con artist to a rich man.
The Burning Spring
Oct 6, 1959
Bronco relives a wartime experience while testifying in the trial of his would-be killer.
Bodyguard
Oct 20, 1959
Bronco is hired as a bodyguard, but when he fails to keep the man alive, he's faced with a host of people confessing to the killing.
The Soft Answer
Nov 3, 1959
Bronco intervenes when a range war between cattlemen and sheepmen threatens to become a slaughter due to the Quaker sheepman's refusal to use guns.
The Last Resort
Nov 17, 1959
Bronco goes in search of the only man who can clear him of a murder charge, but must disguise himself when his quarry goes to ground in a lawless town known as a haven for criminal
The Devil's Spawn
Dec 1, 1959
Bushwhacked by an escaped convict, Bronco is saved by a local rancher and becomes involved in his feud with a neighboring family.
Flight from an Empire
Dec 15, 1959
Bronco hires refugees from the fallen Maximillian empire, but has to contend with bandits who are convinced the mother and son know what happened to $5 million in missing gold.
Night Train to Denver
Dec 29, 1959
Bronco accompanies a corpse to Denver and is accused when $100,000 is stolen from the railcar.
Shadow of Jesse James
Jan 12, 1960
Bronco tries to break up the James gang by pressuring outlaw Cole Younger to give up Jesse, an indiscriminate killer.
Masquerade
Jan 26, 1960
Bronco's attempt to reform four teenage would-be outlaws backfires when a violent gang cuts in on their planned gold heist.
Volunteers from Aberdeen
Feb 9, 1960
Bronco tries to rescue a lovestruck friend from murder and robbery charges.
Every Man a Hero
Feb 23, 1960
Bronco arrives at Ft. Monument in the wake of an Indian massacre, and slowly realizes the survivors are actually criminals masquerading as heroes.
Death of an Outlaw
Mar 8, 1960
Bronco wins a range war with the help of Billy the Kid, but when the dust settles the outlaw is still wanted by the law and by bounty-hunter Pat Garrett.
The Human Equation
Mar 22, 1960
Bronco finally talks an Army officer into sending the Osage to a fertile Wyoming territory, but a cholera epidemic and a hostile new commander threatens to destroy the plan.
Montana Passage
Apr 5, 1960
Bronco fakes his own death, and assumes the identity of a colonist, in order to hunt down the outlaws who framed him for murder.
Legacy of Twisted Creek
Apr 19, 1960
Bronco's attempt to capture a killer alive runs into a snag when a band of renegade Apaches set out to kill his prisoner in hopes of sparking an uprising.
Tangled Trail
May 3, 1960
Bronco helps a small herder resists a brutal rancher and finds himself accused of murder when the man's unbalanced wife becomes a tool for the canny rancher.
La Rubia
May 17, 1960
A beautiful woman double-crosses Bronco when she learns that the bandits who have taken them hostage have a fortune in gold hidden in a secret cache.
Winter Kill
May 31, 1960
A vengeful mother swears to kill the prisoner Bronco and Marshal Sample are taking to the county jail.
End of a Rope
Jun 14, 1960
Bronco finds himself on the gallows after he stumbles across an elaborate scheme to protect wanted fugitives from the law.