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Tales of Wells Fargo: Season 2

38 episodes Premiered Sep 9, 1957
Previously on Tales of Wells Fargo

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 Tales of Wells Fargo 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.
Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Mytharc (6): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S2·E1 Mytharc

Belle Star

Sep 9, 1957

A gang lead by Belle Starr, commits a train robbery which included robbing Jim Hardie who happened to be there. Hardie tries to lure the pretty outlaw out of hiding by tempting her

S2·E2 Core

Two Cartridges

Sep 16, 1957

A rookie outlaw, Al Porter, holds up a stage for $10,000. Jim waiting for the money to arrive decides to go after him alone after learning about the holdup, but requires the outlaw

S2·E3 Core

Apache Gold

Sep 9, 1957

Hardie agrees to join a father searching for his son who is seeking a lost gold mine in Arizona's Superstition Mountains. The men must deal with a lack of water and the fact that t

S2·E4 Core

John Wesley Hardin

Sep 30, 1957

Hardie is the only witness to a robbery. A young man hoping to get his partner off, wants Jim scared off or killed before his trial. Hardie still hopes to determine who his partner

S2·E5 Core

The Target

Oct 7, 1957

While on a stage coach, a Pony Express rider, Stan Blake, who Jim knows stops to help them and is found dead down the route. Jim Hardie takes on the man's route and hopes to lure t

S2·E6 Core

The Feud

Oct 14, 1957

Jim is sent to negotiate a right-of-way for Wells Fargo stagecoaches through Sam Brundage's property as a shortcut. His price - convincing Brundage's neighbor, John McCloud, to sha

S2·E7 Filler

Billy the Kid

Oct 21, 1957

Hardie investigates a stagecoach holdup where white men posing as Indians kill the driver and guard and left a pretty passenger for dead. Billy the Kid rescues the stranded lady wh

S2·E8 Core

The Auction

Oct 28, 1957

At the annual auction of Wells Fargo's unclaimed luggage a man and a woman Hardie is following bid vigorously on a battered suitcase. Hardie wins the auction. He is pistol whipped

S2·E9 Core

Hank Aka Chips

Nov 4, 1957

Jim Hardie is called in when a stagecoach is robbed near the Arizona/New Mexico border. He is told that the only thing taken was a yellow mongrel dog. Investigating further he lear

S2·E10 Core

Man in the Box

Nov 11, 1957

Hardie, sent by Wells Fargo, tries to clear a young man he hired for them charged with murder when he's found standing over a dead man with his gun still smoking. With no time due

S2·E11 Core

The Kid

Nov 18, 1957

Hardie, sent by Wells Fargo, tries to clear a young man he hired for them charged with murder when he's found standing over a dead man with his gun still smoking. With no time due

S2·E12 Core

Barbary Coast

Nov 25, 1957

A Wells Fargo ship captain is charged with delivering jade worth $20,000 in the Barbary Coast. Instead the jade is stolen and he is charged with the guard's murder. It is up to Har

S2·E13 Core

Ride with the Killer

Dec 2, 1957

When a train carrying a Wells Fargo express car is robbed, Hardie is assigned to recover the stolen money. His efforts are handicapped by a new trigger-happy detective he is traini

S2·E14 Mytharc

The Inscrutable Man

Dec 9, 1957

Hardie is ordered to track down the man who murdered a Wells Fargo messenger. He is helped by the driver who recognized the killer and is willing to testify. The town is wild and H

S2·E15 Core

The General

Dec 16, 1957

Hardie is ordered by Wells Fargo to escort General Sheridan who hates Indians by stagecoach to Fort Laramie for a meeting with the Sioux tribe to create peace in the area. Attackin

S2·E16 Core

Laredo

Dec 23, 1957

Rather than spend Christmas with friends as he planned, Hardie is sent to track gunrunners who are transporting weapons illegally across the Mexican border at Laredo to gangs who s

S2·E17 Mytharc

The Witness

Dec 30, 1957

When a Wells Fargo office is robbed and one of Jim Hardie's friends is murdered, Hardie is doubly intent on solving the crime. With the help of an aging sheriff and a spunky boy, J

S2·E18 Core

Doc Bell

Jan 7, 1958

Pretending to be hardened convict, Hardie escapes from prison with a felon who stashed the proceeds from a stagecoach robbery before he was captured. The Wells Fargo detective hope

S2·E19 Mytharc

Stage West

Jan 13, 1958

Jim Hardie agrees to having Wells Fargo take a woman as cargo who is wanted as a material witness in a San Francisco political corruption investigation. He is forced to guard her a

S2·E20 Filler

Hoss Tamer

Jan 20, 1958

A young man stranded in a remote town is looking for a job working with horses. Jim Hardie befriends him along with a cranky softy and he returns the favor by helping Hardie solve

S2·E21 Core

Hide Jumpers

Jan 27, 1958

Hardie attempts to find a gang of outlaws who specialize in stealing buffalo hides from a buffalo hide buyer, Fresno Keeley, backed by Wells Fargo. He suspects one of those involve

S2·E22 Core

The Walking Mountain

Feb 3, 1958

When Wells Fargo is accused of stealing high grade gold ore from the Walking Mountain mine's wagons, Hardie is sent to the mine to investigate after another Wells Fargo investigato

S2·E23 Core

Bill Longley

Feb 10, 1958

Wanted outlaw Bill Longley and Jim join forces to retrieve money stolen from Wells Fargo. Another outlaw working with Longley tricks Hardie into having the $5,000 reward available

S2·E24 Core

The Prisoner

Feb 17, 1958

Hardie offers an old outlaw he sent to prison, not known for his trustworthiness, the opportunity to earn a parole and a reward if he will lead a posse into an outlaw stronghold an

S2·E25 Core

Dr. Alice

Feb 23, 1958

An outlaw gang abducts a pretty woman doctor to operate on one of their wounded confederates. Hardie desperately attempts to rescue the young woman as the local Wells Fargo agent's

S2·E26 Core

The Sooners

Mar 3, 1958

Hardie delivers a race horse to Wells Fargo employee Ken Hunter to use in the race for land in the Oklahoma Strip to stake out a Wells Fargo depot. When there is no word from him,

S2·E27 Core

Alias Jim Hardie

Mar 10, 1958

After a train robbery Jim Hardie is sent to guard a $20,000 payroll. An outlaw gang abducts him and one of the outlaws, using Jim's identification papers, takes his place to rob th

S2·E28 Core

The Johnny Ringo Story

Mar 17, 1958

When Hardie captures the notorious Johnny Ringo, the outlaw requests that he be able to visit his sister, who is dying, for three days and to keep from the young woman Ringo's crim

S2·E29 Core

The Newspaper

Mar 24, 1958

Hardie is sent to the town of Madden controlled by Effie Sutton when the Wells Fargo stages runs into problem on the line competing with Effie's own S&S stage line. The revolt by t

S2·E30 Core

Special Delivery

Mar 31, 1958

While riding shotgun to protect a valuable gold shipment, Hardie and his stagecoach driver have an interesting collection of passengers and cargo:a U.S. Army officer being sent to

S2·E31 Core

Deadwood

Apr 7, 1958

Jim Hardie in Deadwood to protect a shipment tries to prove a notorious gunslinger, Billy Reno, has been framed for holding up the stagecoach and murder after he realizes the case

S2·E32 Core

The Gun

Apr 14, 1958

During an attempted hold-up, Hardie guns down a man who the outlaw leader claims was not a member of their gang. Hardie learns the man was an ex-convict who had gone straight after

S2·E33 Core

The Reward

Apr 21, 1958

Hardie rides into Bridger to present a reward check to a man who helped prevent a stagecoach robbery. The fearful townspeople claim that they've never heard of the man and when the

S2·E34 Core

The Pickpocket

Apr 28, 1958

Jim's train is robbed and he is left without funds in a small town whose businessmen refuse to grant him credit. With the help of a friendly old pickpocket, Hardie manages to allev

S2·E35 Core

Scapegoat

May 5, 1958

Jim is sent to investigate the murder of a Wells Fargo agent and finds that the sheriff suspects their new teacher, an ex-convict. Although Jim sent the man to prison, he is convin

S2·E36 Core

The Renegade

May 12, 1958

Wells Fargo manager has second thoughts about a stagecoach guard he recently hired despite the man's lack of references. He remembered that the new guard wore a belt buckle similar

S2·E37 Mytharc

The Break

May 19, 1958

Jim investigates the murder of a Wells Fargo express agent. His only lead is a young wounded outlaw. With the help of the local sheriff, Jim pretends to be Jesse James and tricks t

S2·E38 Mytharc

The Sniper

May 26, 1958

When he arrives at a Wells Fargo office, Hardie witnesses the murder of its agent by a sniper bullet. Hardie quickly focuses on a number of suspects, including two Wells Fargo empl