After Frank McGrath complains of a lack of meat for which he needs to cook his infamous Charlie Wooster stew, Robert Horton goes on a cattle buying trip. The owner of the local Ponderosa is Edgar Buchanan and that is who Flint McCullough has to do business with. But Buchanan is not in a mood for business as his only son has just been murdered and he's given out orders to bring in saloon girl Myrna Fahey dead or alive.
And that's when Horton steps into this business when he finds Fahey on the trail more dead than alive courtesy of a bullet from Buchanan's hired gun Sherwood Price. He brings her to the town doctor Whit Bissell who patches Fahey up but insists she not stay in his place.
This whole town is under Buchanan's thumb, they don't even have a sheriff. He rules by decree.
In the end there's a showdown between Horton and Price and the rest of the gunslingers. Look to the Frank Sinatra film Johnny Concho if you want to know how it comes out.
Big kudos to Edgar Buchanan who usually plays folksy rascal types even when he's occasionally a villain. Here there's nothing folksy about him. But he's what you'll remember from this Wagon Train episode.
And that's when Horton steps into this business when he finds Fahey on the trail more dead than alive courtesy of a bullet from Buchanan's hired gun Sherwood Price. He brings her to the town doctor Whit Bissell who patches Fahey up but insists she not stay in his place.
This whole town is under Buchanan's thumb, they don't even have a sheriff. He rules by decree.
In the end there's a showdown between Horton and Price and the rest of the gunslingers. Look to the Frank Sinatra film Johnny Concho if you want to know how it comes out.
Big kudos to Edgar Buchanan who usually plays folksy rascal types even when he's occasionally a villain. Here there's nothing folksy about him. But he's what you'll remember from this Wagon Train episode.
