Cheyenne: Season 3
Season 3 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 Cheyenne Season 2.
- 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 3 Progress Shield
Incident at Indian Springs
Sep 24, 1957 · 60 min
A schoolmaster kills an outlaw. His reward: The school is besieged by the outlaw's brothers.
The Conspirators
Oct 8, 1957 · 60 min
Clint Walker sings and dances as Cheyenne poses as an actor to expose a ring of Southern subversives.
The Mutton Puncher
Oct 22, 1957 · 60 min
Cheyenne serves as the stake in a poker game---and a pretty rancher wins.
Border Affair
Nov 5, 1957 · 60 min
Sebastian Cabot and Erin O'Brien play an aging general and his unwilling bride.
Devil's Canyon
Nov 19, 1957 · 60 min
Cheyenne guides a group of ruthless fortune hunters on a dangerous search for buried diamonds.
Town of Fear
Dec 3, 1957 · 60 min
An entire town turns against Cheyenne when he tries to prove a friend is not guilty of murder.
Top Hand
Dec 31, 1957 · 60 min
Cheyenne turns down the job of top hand for rancher Ben Gentry but finds two more offers awaiting him for the same job.
The Last Comanchero
Jan 14, 1958 · 60 min
Cheyenne must stand up to a lynch mob to protect his captive, a man who sold guns to the Indians.
The Gamble
Jan 28, 1958 · 60 min
Cheyenne takes over a saloon for a woman whose daughter is coming home after years in the East.
Renegades
Feb 11, 1958 · 60 min
An Indian-hating colonel threatens to ruin Cheyenne's peace negotiations.
The Empty Gun
Feb 25, 1958
When Matt Reardon tries to aid the widow of a man he killed, he learns her son is out for vengeance.
White Warrior
Mar 11, 1958
Cheyenne, leading a wagon train in Apache territory, meets a band of braves and tries to free a teenage captive from them.
Ghost of the Cimarron
Mar 25, 1958
Forced to aid a wounded gunman, Cheyenne is mistaken for a gang member by lawmen.
Wagon-Tongue North
Apr 8, 1958 · 60 min
Cheyenne, in disguise, acts as a trail boss for a woman whose husband he killed in self-defense.
The Long Search
Apr 22, 1958 · 60 min
A 10-year-old boy has disappeared, and Cheyenne is aided in the search by a Sioux youth, whose tribe has been accused of kidnapping the boy.
Standoff
May 6, 1958
Cheyenne aids a village that faces destruction by an outlaw who's avenging the deaths of two of his men.
Dead to Rights
May 20, 1958 · 60 min
A suave attorney stymies Cheyenne's hunt for a killer.
Noose at Noon
Jun 3, 1958 · 60 min
An innocent man must hang for murder – or his wife will be killed.
The Angry Sky
Jun 17, 1958 · 60 min
A woman comes to Cheyenne's aid after he is wounded while trailing a killer.