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Tales of Wells Fargo: Season 3

39 episodes Premiered Sep 8, 1958
Previously on Tales of Wells Fargo

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 Tales of Wells Fargo 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.
Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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S3·E1 Mytharc

The Gambler

Sep 8, 1958

When a stage breaks down, a passenger who is returning home after three years in prison for a crime he said he didn't commit, becomes upset with his treatment. Hardie decides to ta

S3·E2 Core

The Manuscript

Sep 15, 1958

Bob Dawson has been paroled to Jim Hardie and is living at Brisbane, Nebraska where he regales the people with stories he is writing about them. Worried about his stories someone h

S3·E3 Core

White Indian

Sep 22, 1958

While Jim Hardie is in a town a Choctaw boy shows up with a note from Wells Fargo talking about a boy being ship to his parents from his grandmother. Hardie has to determine if the

S3·E4 Core

The Golden Owl

Sep 29, 1958

While attempting to deliver a golden owl to its wealthy purchaser, Hardy is attacked and the owl is replaced by one of lead by someone while a Chinese religious society claims the

S3·E5 Core

Faster Gun

Oct 6, 1958

After being gunned down by Johnny Reno, Jim Hardie is promoted to District Superintendent but finds he doesn't like office work. He decides to join his replacement to go after Reno

S3·E6 Core

Butch Cassidy

Oct 13, 1958

When Butch Cassidy is released from prison, Jim Hardie, who sent him to prison, is tasked with asking him to work for Wells Fargo. While on a train, Butch meets an outlaw friend, I

S3·E7 Core

End of the Trail

Oct 20, 1958

So that a stagecoach road through the Dakota Black Hills can be completed, Hardie arrives to negotiate with the Pawnees who have killed a crew's hunter consigning the crew to meage

S3·E8 Core

A Matter of Honor

Nov 3, 1958

Hardie arrives in Medicine River to help set up a new office. He is greeted at the office by an employee who is the son of a Cheyenne chief he knew when the boy was young but the l

S3·E9 Filler

The Most Dangerous Man Alive

Nov 10, 1958

Jim Hardie's task of catching the Manning Brothers is interrupted when his attempt to help a stranded man backfires. The man, John Leslie Nagel, has a $25,000 bounty on him so he t

S3·E10 Core

The Gunfighter

Nov 17, 1958

Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to Comanche, Texas to find the Rucker brothers who are hanging around there. Unknown to Hardie, John Wesley Hardin is there, a cousin to the Rucke

S3·E11 Core

The Deserter

Nov 24, 1958

Hardie is sent to confer with the Colonel at Fort Chaplin which is closing now that a peace treaty has been signed. Wells Fargo is concerned about a rash of robberies in the area b

S3·E12 Core

The Killer

Dec 1, 1958

Jim Hardie is accompanying a stagecoach carrying a Senator. He has angered the large ranchers in the area with his plan to turn over untitled land to settlers. Three ranchers have

S3·E13 Core

The Counterfeiters

Dec 8, 1958

Wells Fargo is threaten with bankruptcy if they don't find the source of counterfeit Bills of Exchange used to move money. The one man they have caught with them refuses to talk to

S3·E14 Core

Cow Town

Dec 15, 1958

Hardie teams up with railroad investigator, Mike Forbes, to solve a robbery of their joint office in Amity, Kansas. As they solve the robbery a second robbery occurs involving a mu

S3·E15 Core

The Happy Tree

Dec 22, 1958

Jack Kramer soon to be executed asks Hardie to help his son change his evil tendency in exchange for stolen Wells Fargo gold so Hardie takes the son from an orphanage placing him w

S3·E16 Core

The Dealer

Dec 29, 1958

Jim is going to Dodge to look for two men who robbed Wells Fargo in Yuba City. On the way he helps the Peel family with a broken wheel. In Dodge City Peel's gambling addiction has

S3·E17 Core

Showdown Trail

Jan 5, 1959

Jim Hardie is held up by a family based gang to free a member Jim is cuffed to and transporting to jail. Once the cuffs are cut Jim is able to escape but his prisoner wants revenge

S3·E18 Core

Luke Frazer

Jan 12, 1959

Jim pursues Luke Frazer for murder right after he guns Bud Scanlon down. Hardie apprehends the gunslinger who's worried his impressionable brother Johnny is following in his footst

S3·E19 Core

Wild Cargo

Jan 19, 1959

Jim Hardie makes a trip to Oro Gulch to pick up a shipment finding himself riding with a four woman entertainment troupe. The trip seems to be linked to a series of robberies along

S3·E20 Mytharc

The Cleanup

Jan 26, 1959

Jim Hardie is sent to Silver City where a gang is trying to extort money from businesses including Wells Fargo to do business. Hardie arrives to find the local agent murdered and a

S3·E21 Core

Fort Massacre

Feb 2, 1959

Hardie brings an Army payroll into an Army fort under Indian attack. The only commander left, a green Lieutenant, is uncertain of his command and doubted by his men. Jim believes h

S3·E22 Core

The Town That Wouldn't Talk

Feb 9, 1959

Jim arrives in Dakota territory to investigate the death of a company driver. But everyone in town is tight lipped about his death and others currently ill. After seeing a cow buri

S3·E23 Core

Lola Montez

Feb 16, 1959

Jim Hardie has been sent to catch outlaw Zach Bradley who killed a Wells Fargo employee. The stage they are on is stopped by two Apaches who want the same man for killing a squaw a

S3·E24 Mytharc

The Branding Iron

Feb 23, 1959

Hardie arrives at his friend Curly Brown's ranch learning Curlie was murdered. His widow struggles on her own and Jim becomes suspicious of the people ready to buy the place. As he

S3·E25 Core

The House I Enter

Mar 2, 1959

Hardie enters town as the Wells Fargo office is robbed. Tracking the suspects he encounters Doc Forrester who holds a grudge against Jim. They are taken to the Haggerty farm where

S3·E26 Core

The Legacy

Mar 9, 1959

Jim Hardie is checking on the estate a man many think was an outlaw passed to a man known to be the son of the outlaw. He has arrived to claim the homestead. Hardie finds a neighbo

S3·E27 Core

The Rawhide Kid

Mar 16, 1959

Jim Hardie stumbles on to a man and his daughter shot in the head. The dead man was holding a wanted poster for the Rawhide Kid who was wanted 20 years earlier. He finds a young ma

S3·E28 Core

Toll Road

Mar 23, 1959

Hardie has his hands full with an escaped criminal Buff, Sheriff Huckaby considered a coward and a new road house manager who's a former drinker. Also a driver intent on setting a

S3·E29 Core

The Tired Gun

Mar 30, 1959

Jim Hardie tries to help pretty Pearl Watkins with her brother Ira who is becoming an outlaw but is not wanted by Wells Fargo. His attempt fails but it is not long before he and th

S3·E30 Core

Terry

Apr 6, 1959

Jim Hardie stops by a relay station that has reported a theft of several horses. He is met at the door by a pretty young woman who unknowingly is at the center of the theft as a ma

S3·E31 Core

The Last Stand

Apr 13, 1959

Jim Hardie is sent to accompany a delayed and large payroll for a mine at Daleyville. Complicating things, there is an employee who feels under appreciated by Wells Fargo but he ha

S3·E32 Core

Bob Dawson

Apr 22, 1959

Jim Hardie makes a visit to his parolee Bob Dawson. While there someone tries to rob the Wells Fargo office killing a sleeping man. The technique used is a copy of one Dawson used

S3·E33 Core

The Tall Texan

Apr 27, 1959

A tip sends Jim Hardie to Wagner, Montana on the outlook for outlaws. At the hotel he runs into Laurie Hammer who ran away from home with the outlaw Will Carver. He tells her he re

S3·E34 Core

Doc Holliday

May 4, 1959

Jim Hardie at a stop finds a stagecoach holdup netted $50,000 in crisp new bills and Doc Holliday and his wife Amy are there. When Amy receives some of the bills from Doc she accus

S3·E35 Core

Kid Curry

May 11, 1959

Jim Hardie is sent after Kid Curry who has his Wells Fargo at Blue Cross, Wyoming. Hardie is able to catch him near Knoxville, Tennessee after he has been shot. However, Kid Curry

S3·E36 Core

The Little Man

May 18, 1959

Jim Hardie is in Clay City when the stage comes in driven by two passengers with the driver and shotgun dead and the cash stolen. They say two men held it up but Hardie suspects th

S3·E37 Core

The Daltons

May 25, 1959

Jim Hardie has been sent to capture the Dalton brothers by Wells Fargo after they strike several express shipments. Jim having worked with Bob goes to their mother's house to find

S3·E38 Mytharc

The Bounty Hunter

Jun 1, 1959

Hardie is sent in to investigate a railroad holdup with cash stolen and two railroad men wounded. With a big reward for the remaining outlaw, a bounty hunter named Briscoe is on th

S3·E39 Mytharc

Clay Allison

Jun 15, 1959

Jim Hardie is sent to investigate the theft of a shipment of saloon equipment to Clay Allison, gunfighter, who has a hot temper. Hardie suspects that his competitor, Taggert, stole