Rawhide: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
Incident of El Toro
Sep 21, 1962
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 tens
Incident of the Hunter
Sep 28, 1962
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.
Incident of the Portrait
Oct 5, 1962
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. Mar
Incident at Cactus Wells
Oct 12, 1962
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
Incident of the Prodigal Son
Oct 19, 1962
Sam Hargas finds a half baked, half starved greenhorn, Ben Whitney IV. His horse stepped in a chuck hole. He's a rich brat.
Incident of the Four Horsemen
Oct 26, 1962
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 Kerr
Incident of the Lost Woman
Nov 2, 1962
Favor finds a woman, Lissa Hobson, still alive but not by much, and her baby, Tad.
Incident of the Dogfaces
Nov 9, 1962
Rowdy,Quince and Clay help out three soldiers being attacked by Indians. They were sent to break the treaty with Broken Bow.
Incident at Sugar Creek
Nov 23, 1962
An injured ex-con Sam Garrett is refused treatment by his home town.
Incident of the Reluctant Bridegroom
Nov 30, 1962
Rowdy gets drugged in a bar with Shelia, the bar owner's girl and wakes up married to her.
Incident of the Querencias
Dec 7, 1962
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.
Incident at Quivira
Dec 14, 1962
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 shar
Incident of Decision
Dec 28, 1962
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.
Incident of the Buryin' Men
Jan 4, 1963
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.
Incident of the Trail's End
Jan 11, 1963
Harry Maxton has glaucoma. Gil offers Harry a job to Rowdy's surprise.
Incident at Spider Rock
Jan 18, 1963
Lola's saloon is watering the booze and cheating the drovers. The supplies Wish bought are bad.
Incident of the Mountain Man
Jan 25, 1963
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.
Incident at Crooked Hat
Feb 1, 1963
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.
Incident of Judgment Day
Feb 8, 1963
Rowdy's ex-commanding officer, Captain Cabot convenes a make shift courts-martial for him in a ghost town.
Incident of the Gallows Tree
Feb 22, 1963
In Cottonwood, at the Pair-A-Dice Saloon, Qunice gets in a fight with Major Courtney. Jim swears he'll kill him.
Incident of the Married Widow
Mar 1, 1963
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.
Incident of the Pale Rider
Mar 15, 1963
The new man is a dead ringer for the man Rowdy shot in a Wells Fargo holdup.
Incident of the Comanchero
Mar 22, 1963
Sisters Benaventura and Teresa cut Maria Jose Chappela off an indian torture rack.
Incident of the Clown
Mar 29, 1963
Morris G. Stevens, a failed actor, toured the world as a clown. Now a philologist he wants to create a Comanche dictionary.
Incident of the Black Ace
Apr 12, 1963
A gypsy tells Wish's fortune he draws the death card three times.
Incident of the Hostages
Apr 19, 1963
Rowdy buys three white children from the Arapahos that have been raised by the Apache.
Incident of White Eyes
May 3, 1963
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.
Incident at Rio Doloroso
May 10, 1963
Don Francisco Maldonaldo sentences Favor and Rowdy to die for the death of his son.
Incident at Alkali Sink
May 24, 1963
Burt Harvey is accused of cowardice at Gettysburg by his new father-in-law.