Rawhide: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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
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Rio Salado
Sep 29, 1961
Rowdy and Hey Soos are robbed by Antonio Marcos. He is leading a revolution against the Texas land grant. Rowdy meets his Dad, who ran out on him and his Ma.
The Sendoff
Oct 2, 1961
The drovers are beating the scrub for strays. Favor finds wagon remains and twelve graves.
The Long Shakedown
Oct 13, 1961
An overbearing Favor leads to many drovers quitting. Five replacements stir trouble.
Judgment at Hondo Seco
Oct 20, 1961
Quince gets a letter. He needs a couple of days off. Jim, Pete, Rowdy and Hey Soos go to Hando Seco. Casey the bartender knocks their drinks out of their hands when he finds out
The Lost Tribe
Oct 27, 1961
Indians stampede the herd. The sheriff says it's a 100 Cheyenne headed for Mexico. Pete picks up their trail. Pete asks Rowdy not to tell Favor right away. Little Hawk, the Chi
The Inside Man
Nov 3, 1961
Craddock and Clay Forrester plot to steal the herd. Shelia Brewster is running away from her army fiancee.
The Black Sheep
Nov 10, 1961
Favor asks sheepherder,Tod Stone, to let the herd pass his flock. He won't. They take the herd over the ridge to the next valley. Tod takes a shortcut and beats them. Rowdy and
The Prairie Elephant
Nov 17, 1961
Favor finds a circus that is lost. Pascal the owner and clown beats his wife, Jenny, who wants to run away with Dario the other half of her high wire act.
The Little Fishes
Nov 24, 1961
Gilmore tells Favor there's a panic brewing back east. He needs to cut ten days off the drive. Gilmore says don't tell the drovers about the panic. Tom Gwynn ,a fishbreeder, is
The Blue Spy
Dec 8, 1961
A woman wanders into camp needing help. She is an actress who one of the men recognizes later. She worked as a Union spy during the war. Although most of the men hate her, one even
The Gentleman's Gentleman
Dec 15, 1961
Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll. Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.
Twenty-Five Santa Clauses
Dec 22, 1961
Mushy tells Wish he sees Santa Claus - Mr. Bateman - in Texas in the middle of August. Bateman is lost. He keels over. He, his wife Mag, and their nine-year-old boy, Danny, are
The Long Count
Jan 5, 1962
Martha Hastings is running a way station for outlaws. Rowdy, Pete and Wish are hired as census takers.
The Captain's Wife
Jan 12, 1962
Nora Holloway is ambitious for her captain husband to advance. She resorts to lying.
The Peddler
Jan 19, 1962
The drovers discover peddler Mendel J. Sorkin trying to drive a small herd of cattle all by himself. Mendel wants to sell the herd in a nearby town and use the money to return to h
The Woman Trap
Jan 26, 1962
Pete and Rowdy find a whole herd of good looking women heading to Fort Worth to get married.
The Boss's Daughters
Feb 2, 1962
The drover are stopped by fence at Vance Caldwell's ranch and are told they will have to wait until he returns to get permission to pass. But the fence isn't Favor's only problem,
The Deserters' Patrol
Feb 9, 1962
The indians want to trade six soldiers they hold for thier Chief. Favor is commissioned as a captain to make the exchange.
The Greedy Town
Feb 16, 1962
Ada Randolph offers the town $300,000 if they find her dead son, a convicted murderer innocent, and run the sheriff out of town.
Grandma's Money
Feb 23, 1962
On a trip to collect a debt, Rowdy sees an elderly woman apparently hounded by thieves. After rescuing her they go to a nearby town where Rowdy is to collect the debt and she await
The Pitchwagon
Mar 2, 1962
When Frank is killed by indians, a collection is taken for his family. Clay suggests a poker game to run it up.
Hostage Child
Mar 9, 1962
A thirteen year old indian is going to Fort Lacey to see his sister. The commandant hates all indians. He and his wife Azuela have a son.
The Immigrants
Mar 16, 1962
Quince, Clay and Wish are captured and told by Count Ulrich they are his property and will work on his manor house.
The Child-Woman
Mar 23, 1962
Mushy's cousin asks him to take her sister to his mom, to get out of the saloons. She doesn't want to go.
A Woman's Place
Mar 30, 1962
A wagon falls on Harve. Rowdy and Favor go for a doctor. Dr. Daniel Pearson, a quack, says he's the only doctor in town. Mrs. James directs them to Dr. Louise Amadon.
Reunion
Apr 6, 1962
Pete's friend Grey Hawk's son, Wild Horse has escaped and is raiding. General Perry is bringing 500 head of cattle for the indians. Pete is leading Lieutenant Matthew Perry to hi
House of the Hunter
Apr 20, 1962
A deaf mute delivers a letter for Rowdy at the camp. Rowdy picks up a guy, Kilo, whose wagon was stolen. They make camp. In the morning, Kilo and the horses are gone. Rowdy wal
Gold Fever
May 4, 1962
Hosea Brewer has been prospecting Lost Mine ten years after everyone has left. The thought of gold and his three daughters attract the drovers.
The Devil and the Deep Blue
May 11, 1962
Favor wants to fatten the herd for a week. Another herd is three to five days behind. The trail boss is Ben Wade and all the drovers are old. Charlie Holt , owners representativ
Abilene
May 18, 1962
The herd finally arrives in Abilene, the end of a long, hard drive. While most of the drovers plan to spend their pay painting the town, Favor has a few other ideas. He is going