Wagon Train: 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 Wagon Train 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
The Stagecoach Story
Sep 30, 1959 · 51 min
The men are returning to St. Louis by stagecoach except for Flint - until he becomes the driver to help a friend. They are forced to take a detour to Mexico by other passengers - o
The Greenhorn Story
Oct 7, 1959 · 51 min
At the beginning of any wagon train trip, the challenges faced by everyone turns a greenhorn into a seasoned veteran, even if those may mean death of those they love or some other
The C.L. Harding Story
Oct 14, 1959 · 50 min
A reporter has joined the wagon train. When the Major finds out he is a she, he finds his hands full especially when her looks and curiosity jeopardize everyone's safety and their
The Estaban Zamora Story
Oct 21, 1959 · 50 min
Flint find a young man bleeding to death and a knife nearby. He takes the body to sheriff who identifies the man as the youngest Zamora brother. His father is on the train from Spa
The Elizabeth McQueeny Story
Oct 28, 1959 · 51 min
Elizabeth McQueeny is traveling with her girls, heading to a finishing school in the West. When her real purpose becomes known, all the females want her gone but her worth to all s
The Martha Barham Story
Nov 4, 1959 · 50 min
Flint and a long time Sioux Indian friend reunite but trouble is brewing as the Cheyenne are on the warpath and in their way is Fort Hastings, an old flame of his and her new Army
The Cappy Darrin Story
Nov 11, 1959 · 50 min
Old salt Cappy Darrin is on the train with his orphaned grandson Tuck. But Cappy's daughter granted custody of Tuck to his uncle, and as their parting nears Cappy finds he is reluc
The Felizia Kingdom Story
Nov 18, 1959 · 50 min
Tough as nails Felizia Kingdom controls an enormous amount of land by force, and no one is good enough to inherit the responsibility. When Flint handles her henchmen with ease, she
The Jess MacAbee Story
Nov 25, 1959 · 51 min
Flint, scouting ahead of the wagon train, is in search of fresh meat. With prospects none too good he comes upon a hidden paradise, green and lush and offering far more than he exp
The Danny Benedict Story
Dec 2, 1959 · 51 min
He says his name is Tom Smith but a young man Major Adams meets on the trail refuses to join the wagon train and won't say why. When he does find out he meets an old friend and why
The Vittorio Bottecelli Story
Dec 16, 1959 · 50 min
The King orders his womanizing nephew to San Francisco. He joins the wagon train but causes the Major problems as the husbands are complaining but he may have lost his heart to som
The St. Nicholas Story
Dec 23, 1959 · 50 min
Almost Christmas eve, the wagon train deals with a happy time, the perils that go with hostile Indians and a little lost boy who may have already been captured by those same hostil
The Ruth Marshall Story
Dec 30, 1959 · 51 min
As the wagon train moves through Sioux territory, a man named Marshall asks for help in finding his daughter, Ruth, who apparently was taken by Indians following a raid eleven year
The Lita Foladaire Story
Jan 6, 1960 · 51 min
Never having met Lita Foladaire, Major Adams learned a lot about her past, the town she grew up in, the people who loved her and most importantly what happened to her surrounded by
The Colonel Harris Story
Jan 13, 1960 · 51 min
Flint goes to Fort Young to see the Harris family and Bowman Lewis who were friends from his youth. He finds Mrs. Harris dead and her husband swearing to wipe out all Indians inclu
The Marie Brandt Story
Jan 20, 1960 · 50 min
Trying to give her son a chance, Maidie Brant is found by the wagon train. Needing fresh horses after a cougar attack, she is reluctant to say why she won't go back to town and buy
The Larry Hanify Story
Jan 27, 1960 · 51 min
On his deathbed, Joe asks Flint to look after his 17-year old son Larry Hanify and get him to California. There was one catch. His latest escapade put him in jail awaiting trial fo
The Clayton Tucker Story
Feb 10, 1960 · 50 min
Taking a dangerous route through the desert to join up with the wagon train, a small band of settlers take a turn for the worse when they lose the one man leading them, their scout
The Benjamin Burns Story
Feb 17, 1960 · 50 min
One dry water hole is normal but when the wagon train has two, Flint and Ben Burns lead a party to find a legend that only the Indians speak of, Shining Water. Troubles await them
The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story
Feb 24, 1960 · 51 min
Laurie and Ricky Bell uproot and go West, leaving their comforts in Baltimore. When she announces she is pregnant, he is less than happy as he feels she has just made their lives m
The Tom Tuckett Story
Mar 2, 1960 · 50 min
Ever since he was young, Tom Tuckett has been sent to good schools and looked after by an unknown benefactor. When he joins the wagon train he feels he's about to find out who that
The Tracy Sadler Story
Mar 9, 1960 · 50 min
David Forest always believed his father to be as he claimed. When Tracy Sadler joins the wagon train his beliefs are altered when he slowly and painfully learns the truth about his
The Alexander Portlass Story
Mar 16, 1960 · 50 min
Kidnapped, Flint is forced to scout and find a lost Aztec treasure. As some of the men were previously thrown off the wagon train, their unfriendliness is certain unless he can hel
The Christine Elliott Story
Mar 23, 1960 · 50 min
Her father on his deathbed, Christine Elliot decides to fulfill his dream of a boys school and joins the wagon train. A good start: the eleven boys he already has. One man is deter
The Joshua Gilliam Story
Mar 30, 1960 · 51 min
Bill and the Major find a man lying hurt, a meal for the buzzards. When he meets an innocent woman on the wagon train who has an inheritance waiting for her, he shows other skills
The Maggie Hamilton Story
Apr 6, 1960 · 50 min
When their daughter runs away from the wagon train, the Hamiltons hire Flint to bring her back. With renegades in the area, he soon discovers how spoiled Maggie really is and they
The Jonas Murdock Story
Apr 13, 1960 · 50 min
Out of meat and low on food, the wagon train must not kill any wildlife or all will face the wrath of the local Indians. The one holdout is Jonas Murdock who has always lived outsi
The Amos Gibbon Story
Apr 20, 1960 · 50 min
After an argument with Major Adams, Flint leaves the wagon train and mozies up to a bar at a nearby town. What he doesn't know is the locals are shanghaiing strangers for slave lab
Trial for Murder (1)
Apr 27, 1960 · 51 min
When a well thought of member of the wagon train is found dead, Adams needs to prevent mob rule and make sure a lawful trial takes place. The accused who was not well liked is foun
Trial for Murder (2)
May 4, 1960 · 50 min
When the deceased's wife arrives, the people on the wagon train learn that the murdered man has a dark past, and this could be a case of Cain & Abel - or perhaps something or someo
The Countess Baranof Story
May 11, 1960 · 50 min
Countess Baranof is desperate to get to Alaska to claim her family fortune, and with no horses she applies her considerable charms on Flint. But she's not the one Flint should worr
The Dick Jarvis Story
May 18, 1960 · 50 min
A boy hurt in a crippling accident and a domineering mother meet a runaway boy who she feels is making him do things outside his capabilities. Another accident reveals something un
Dr. Swift Cloud
May 25, 1960 · 50 min
Thinking he is not welcome by the white man or his people, an educated Chiracua Indian returns to find prejudices among both of them and must find a way to overcome all of them bef
The Luke Grant Story
Jun 1, 1960 · 50 min
Luke Grant is found wandering the desert with one wish on his mind - kill me! Turned over to the wagon train by some friendly Chiracawa Indians, they slowly discover his identity a
The Charlene Brenton Story
Jun 8, 1960 · 50 min
A baby girl sure has a rough start when she arrives on the stage with her dead mother. Plague is what people think killed her and then Charlie Wooster steps in to try to help - and
The Sam Livingston Story
Jun 15, 1960 · 50 min
Abigail has lost her driver to the better paying mines. Her new driver says he owns a bank and a pig. The ride West reveals another side of him that takes at least the pig to chang
The Shadrack Bennington Story
Jun 22, 1960 · 50 min
Shadrack Bennington has been a cavalier of the open road, not wanting to be tied down until he joins the wagon train, heading for San Francisco and a future even he couldn't antici