Rawhide: 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 Rawhide 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 Rojo Canyon
Sep 30, 1960
Favor and a calvary detachment lead by Sargeant Matson swear if they did not know better would think they were under attack from a military unit.
Incident of the Challenge
Oct 14, 1960
Favor gets knocked off his horse and knocked out. He wakes to Aztec Indian who has traveled 1500 miles to find a princess.
Incident at Dragoon Crossing
Oct 21, 1960
An ailing Favor asks John Cord to take over the herd. He heads them to Dragoon Crossing where the Bates boys demanded tribute when he brought his herd through.
Incident of the Night Visitor
Nov 4, 1960
Jeff Barkley catches a stranger in the camp, a boy of about twelve. He wings Jeff. They track the boys footprints. Seven or eight men tried to steal the ramuda. Favor finds the
Incident of the Slavemaster
Nov 11, 1960
Mrs. Bradley pulls a gun on Victor Laurier and wants to know where her husband is. She knows he isn't dead. Victor was in charge of a POW camp. At the end of the war Victor says
Incident on the Road to Yesterday
Nov 18, 1960
Ralph Bartlet asks Favor to return $250 to a stage line he held up and to check on his first love.
Incident at Superstition Prairie
Dec 2, 1960
Wish finds an indian left to die in a cave, and rescues him.
Incident at Poco Tiempo
Dec 9, 1960
The Poco Tiempo bank has been. Rowdy and Quince are suspects and are taken to two nuns to be identified. They say they are not the men. Two desperadoes are holding Father Sebast
Incident of the Captive
Dec 16, 1960
Harkness Musgrove's III mother is coming to take him home. Mushy asks to be a drover. Favor says yes. Mom's stage gets held up. Mom slaps the bandana off one of the highwaymen.
Incident of the Buffalo Soldier
Jan 1, 1961
Rowdy chases after a buffalo soldier who has killed another soldier and has taken off on his horse.
Incident of the Broken Word
Jan 20, 1961
Ben Foley resorts to murder to hide the fact the cattle he is selling to Favor are diseased. Frank Pierce accidentily shot Ben's wife years ago.
Incident at the Top of the World
Jan 27, 1961
There's a new drover who has just spent five years in an army hospital and is addicted to morphine.
Incident Near the Promised Land
Feb 3, 1961
The drive has reached Sedalia but there is a bank scare and no buyers. Favor must deal with bitter Emma Caldwell to graze the herd.
Incident of the Big Blowout
Feb 10, 1961
The drovers celebrate the end of the drive. Rowdy is mistaken for another man.
Incident of the Fish Out of Water
Feb 17, 1961
Favor returns to Philadelphia to see his two daughters. Another passenger is Ogala, Chief of the Pawnee. He is going to be in a wild west show.
Incident on the Road Back
Feb 24, 1961
The men are gathering for the next drive. A stray horse is tied up. Favor is arrested for horse stealing. The sheriff's wife is having an affair, with Cronin who reported the ho
Incident of the New Start
Mar 3, 1961
Jubal Wade has 1600 head on this drive and demands to be trail boss and says he'll keep Favor's crew if he stays on as ramrod.
Incident of the Running Iron
Mar 10, 1961
Frank Miller is a herd cutter getting on in years with a nineteen year old son. Quince chases a rustler off, but is arrested himself.
Incident Near Gloomy River
Mar 17, 1961
Dan Fletcher returns to his Ma and brother,Cal, whose home just burned. Cal thinks Frank Travis is trying to run them off. Frank's daughter Flora has had Cal courting her for a y
Incident of the Boomerang
Mar 24, 1961
Ruthann Harper and Richard Goffage are taking 200 head of cattle to Australia. Ruthann has a questionable past.
Incident of his Brother's Keeper
Mar 31, 1961
Paul Evans is confined to a wheelchair. His wife is preparing to run away with Paul's brother. Pete gets stuck in the middle.
Incident in the Middle of Nowhere
Apr 7, 1961
Favor and Rowdy come upon a ballet in the middle of nowhere. A search for a pass and water leads to villians looking for gold.
Incident of the Phantom Bugler
Apr 14, 1961
Jayhawkers try to charge Favor for water and a toll to cross the river, on indian territory. Captain Brian Donohoe follows the orders of Judge Brady. Mary, the judges daughter is
Incident of the Lost Idol
Apr 28, 1961
Billy Manson, his mom and sister Laurie are on the way to meet their aunt, who is to take them back east. Two bounty hunters shadow them, hoping to find Clete their wanted father.
Incident of the Running Man
May 5, 1961
Rowdy is handcuffed to a deputy that says he has to warn Camp Henly. The deputy is shot and Rowdy is arrested for murder.
Incident of the Painted Lady
May 12, 1961
Partners of Thad Clemens are holding Favor's herd until they're paid the $15,000 that Thad swindled them out of. Baxter Springs Cattleman's Association will not help Favor.
Incident Before Black Pass
May 19, 1961
Pete and Rowdy are captured by the Kiowa. Two other indians want to accompany the herd to Black Pass.
Incident of the Blackstorms
May 26, 1961
Sky Blackstorm sends a message to the River City sheriff with Mushy. He's coming tomorrow at sun up for his son Danny.
Incident of the Night on the Town
Jun 2, 1961
Judge Akins tells Favor he has 750 head of Mrs. North cattle. Lewis, Mrs. North lawyer says the cattle that Wesley Adams turned over to Favor, were Mrs. North's and were to be del
Incident of the Wager on Payday
Jun 16, 1961
Sidney Proctor, along with Joe Stapp, are robbing his father's bank as a joke. The night watchman, Simpson, wakes up. Joe clunks him. Sid thinks they're bringing the money back