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Tales of Wells Fargo: Woman with a Gun (1959)
Woman with qv
After a Wells Fargo stagecoach was held up after leaving San Anselmo with $50,000 taken and the shotgun guard killed, Jim Hardie is sent to investigate. When he arrives, he asks the local agent Tom Klinger for the manifest and report on the stage. A local rancher, a widow, shipped the $50,000 in bullion but Tom says this is an unusual shipment for them but he has high regard for Mrs. Linda De Vega who owns the large Rancho De Vega and that he checked the shipment. Hardie remarks that it would not be the first time someone tried to double their money. Hardie hands some posters to handyman Lonnie Tate to hang around town. Hardie leaves to visit Sheriff Ray Coffee to talk about the location of the robbery.
As Hardie heads back to his horse, he sees Lonnie tossed out of a bar. Lonnie tells him that Billy Brunell stopped him. Hardie enters and receives the same greeting from Billy but this time Billy goes out the door but returns to confront Hardie who must shoot him. Hardie then rides out to the robbery site where the tracks lead to Rancho De Vega, where the beautiful yet scheming Linda De Vega resides.
Madlyn Rhue is sharp as Linda De Vega and it's amazing how Hardie could resist her -a fair episode with a complex plot, sufficient twists and action.
Tales of Wells Fargo: Relay Station (1959)
Relay station
Jim Hardie is on the trail to Turkey Crossing Relay Station for Wells Fargo when he comes across a young man badly wounded in the shoulder. Being close to the relay station he takes the wounded man there where the reception is very icy. Brock wants the two of them to move on as Hardie hasn't identified himself.
Susan refuses to turn the two men out so Hardie suggests they treat the wounded man outside. The wounded man's horse is spent so they are unable to travel even after he recovers somewhat. In the house the telegraph is clattering away but Susan and Brock can't understand it. That night Hardie trails Brock who climbs a telegraph line pole and sends out a message which Hardie can read. Hardie now realizes the trap he is in. He reveals his identity to Susan and the wounded man who happens to play a part in the situation as well.
Rather good entry, set in a relay station where Susan lives at her late father's house - nice tension and a great performance by James Wesrerfield as Brock.
Tales of Wells Fargo: End of a Legend (1959)
End of a Legend
When a Wells Fargo Bank is held up and a man killed, Jim Hardie is sent in to investigate. A local homeless man was arrested when he was caught with a gun owned by a famous outlaw but Jim Hardie knows he is not the real outlaw. Old John just likes the recognition he is receiving.
To save him from hanging Jim must find the real robbers. Jim knows the location of the real Johnny Caine so he travels there, and sneaks into the barn where he finds the Wells Fargo money sack. Johnny shows up saying he must kill Hardie but his wife Elsie intervenes in their fight. Both Hardie and Johnny know who is really behind the robbery ... Caine's brother, Bob...
Ok episode with John Larch playing a reformed outlaw whose brother is causing brothers for him - the bad guys passing the gun to a homeless man and getting him mistaken as outlaw Johnny Caine was a little farfetched.
Tales of Wells Fargo: The Gambler (1958)
The Gambler
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. His reception is not the warmest and he takes it out in the saloon where he breaks a bottle and some glasses. Elderly Marshal Roy Emmett is unable to control him, so Hardie steps in with a loan to pay for the damage.
After paying his bar bill, Dowd joins a poker game indicating Hardie's actions might not help. Unknown to Hardie one of his passengers and two other men are there planning to rob the stage.
Hardie does a little social work here, with trusting a young boy fresh from prison to change his ways, but it doesn't look it as Tom Portman's character is spoiling for trouble. He has got a giant chip on his shoulder - but he might have a chance to prove himself as a hanged man. Nice shootout at the end concludes this rather decent episode. Why did Hardie show understanding to this hellion? Well, the first episode of season four explains to you why...
Tales of Wells Fargo: The Manuscript (1958)
The Manuscript
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 hires Nedy West to kill him and steal his manuscript. Bob Dawson kills West in self defence
After Dawson is arrested Jim Hardie arrives after being notified. When he learns the manuscript has been stolen and someone shoots at Dawson while he is in jail, Hardie is sure Dawson is innocent. The question is who was scared enough to try to kill him and where is the original manuscript?
Edgar Buchanan returns as the lovable rogue who in this episode causes someone to try and kill him just by claiming he is going to reveal things about folk in his memoir - someone has something to hide and can't risk Buchanan writing about it. An entertaining show with a good story idea.
Tales of Wells Fargo: The Late Mayor Brown (1960)
The Late Mayor Brown
When the Wells Fargo agent Jess Brown who was elected mayor is killed on election day, Jim Hardie is sent to investigate. Jess was killed with a unique gun that only one man in the area owns and that Holy Joe Feeney but he is found killed before Jess was shot.
Sonny Boston, a friend of Locust, arrives in town. Jim talks to him as he and Locust know Feeney. Jim is fairly sure that Locust and Boston had nothing to do with the shooting. However, when another body turns up, Jim starts to find more evidence.
Liked the odd way the mayor got shot, well you didn't hear the shot due to the train whistle nor did you see the shooter- where did he hide ? Hardie will find out in this average episode where the real fiends came as no suspense when revealed at the end.
Tales of Wells Fargo: The Branding Iron (1959)
The Branding Iron
Jim Hardie was asked by Curly Brown, a past shotgun messenger, to stop by for a visit as they are old friends and worked together in the past. As Jim Hardie nears Curly's ranch a shot rings out but Jim is unharmed. He arrives to learn that Curly is dead; found shot by someone but the reason is unknown.
Etta, Curly's wife, is determined to run the ranch by herself but it is too much for a lone woman with three young children plus she has much to learn. Hardie, determined to find the killer, decides to stay and help her.
The neighbor Paul Bravender who has tried to help Etta is worried that Hardie suspects him so he brings out Sheriff Welk the next day but there is no evidence to find.
In the hope of luring the killer out in the open, Hardie spread the word he is staying to help Etta, and finds people lined up to buy the Brown ranch as it is prime land with water. He has set himself up as a target and it works faster than he expected.
There's nice twist at the end as far as motive is concerned as the land was presumed to be the reason for Curly's death. Nice episode with some fine mystery and Hardie doing the right thing.
Tales of Wells Fargo: The Golden Owl (1958)
The Golden Owl
Jim Hardie is on a stage from San Francisco to Virginia City, Nevada with the lovely Mary Farnum who says she is on the way to New Orleans to marry an older man, Mr. Casey. They arrive at their destination where Hardie learns from the local agent that the traveling bag he carried is holding a $100,000 solid gold owl from China. Sam Banktort has bought the statue for his wife for their anniversary as a reminder that they met when he killed her pet owl.
Hardie and the clerk Benson leave to drop the owl with Banktort but are attacked on the way. Benson is killed with a Chinese dagger while Hardie is knocked out. Hardie and the Sheriff drop the owl off with the owner but a Chinese man, Mr. Soo, arrives to tell how the statue was stolen in China and that he is charged with buying it back. Hearing Hardie's story, he inspects it determining it has been replaced with a gold plated lead copy. Hardie has one day to find it.
Golden owl, flying daggers, and an upset Chinese man who wants the owl back as it's part of his heritage - good episode, though a longer running time would mean more action and plot twists. But it still an interesting and compact piece of fun.
Tales of Wells Fargo: Faster Gun (1958)
Faster Gun
Jim Hardie is outdrawn by Johnny Reno, who has been hitting Wells Fargo, and while recovering from the wound in a hospital, he is visited by Mr. Savage from the district office. He offers him a promotion to District Superintendent, an office job which Hardie accepts, and he is replaced by Jack Simmons, a man Hardie calls him a bounty hunter.
Once Hardie returns to work in a new office, he finds he doesn't like it as he sees Reno still on the loose. He decides to ask to return to the field but it may mean trouble for the unlucky agent at El Paso where Reno continues to strike.
Hardie is given a desktop after losing a gun battle to Johnny Reno, well played by Hollywood bad boy Tom Neal, and is replaced by grinning Robert J Wilke- but we all know Hardie will want to return to the field. His uneasy alliance with Wilkes turns out ok - it's a decent enough episode. Eugenia Paul is quite a cutie, but she plays a duplicitous minx in this one.
Tales of Wells Fargo: Wild Cargo (1959)
Wild Cargo
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 the way - especially when Jim recognizes one of the women.
That woman went to prison for perjury for a year to protect Joe Shields, a thief and her boyfriend, who escaped. When the stage is stopped by the same gang that held up the bank, Jim's sense of trouble is heightened
Hardie really has a hard time here, surrounded by pretty women. It's a tough job but someone has got to do it. He's on vacation but he still ends up combating bad guys- there's a nice twist in the plot.
Tales of Wells Fargo: The Counterfeiters (1958)
The Counterfeiters
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 (George Kendall) they have caught with them refuses to talk to Hardie forcing him to find the source of them by himself.
Hardie realizes the one place none of the fake bills has been passed is El Paso, Texas so he decides to head there where he has some luck using Kendall's name with Kendall's wife Joyce. However, unknown to Hardie George Kendall has escaped jail.
Hardie takes on the counterfeiters in this decent yarn- there's plenty of intrigue as Hardie goes undercover, gets blindfolded when spoken to the chief villain.
Tales of Wells Fargo: Black Trail (1960)
Black Trail
Wells Fargo is shipping $100,000 from Sacramento to Hammond City for a bank with only five people knowing about the shipment. During the robbery one of the three robbers shoots the other two after the stage leaves but one man, Burch, is only wounded.
Jim Hardie is called in help investigate the robbery. He finds that Mrs. Andrew Davis, the wife of a bank employee who knew about the shipment, has come in with a letter from her husband which strongly indicates he was behind the robbery. The bank president Cyrus Wilson tells them that Davis was known to have an affair with a local seamstress, Elaine Griffin, who was an actress with very dark hair that was left stranded in the town.
Jim investigates and goes to meet the local seamstress and meets a blonde instead. She tells him that Elaine has sold her business and left. She does give Hardie an address where she is to ship the rest of Elaine's belongings. He soon learns he has been taken in by a good actress. He follows her but finds there is someone else following as well.
Elaine Stewart looks quite fetching and sultry in a blonde wig as she dupes poor Dale Robertson - you would think as a detective that he wouldn't be easily duped, but it's not his fault that she's one fine filly and she's coming on strong like a cougar. Standard episode that is watchable enough, but not the strongest one, though.
Tales of Wells Fargo: Forty-Four Forty (1960)
Forty-four Forty
Jim Hardie is sent to Tucson, Arizona where there's been has a rash of stage holdups. Arriving after another holding, Tom the driver tells Hardie that the regular guard got drunk and was fired and replaced by Mr. Gates (Peter Whitney) who had no chance to shoot at the outlaws this time as four of them came from all directions.
One passenger shot is being tended to by the local doctor. However, the description of the wound given to Hardie by the doctor puzzles him. The driver's daughter Myra also tells Jim that he talked in his sleep about through and through.
When Hank took a notched bullet out of the stage coach guard's seat Jim realizes who the outlaws are.
We know who the bad guys are from the outset, and Peter Whitney is the most nastiest of the duo and keeps Tom the driver (Roy Barcroft) in check - he obviously doesn't want to get those "exploding" bullets in his chest! Not a bad episode, it's quite enjoyable with a nice idea about the bullets. Liked the bullet trajectory lecture by the doctor. A little farfetched that Whitney could keep Tom in control without Tom trying to warn Hardie, and in one fight scene Dale's stunt double is seen.
Tales of Wells Fargo: The English Woman (1960)
The English Woman
After a Wells Fargo stage arrives in Morgan with Jim Hardie riding shotgun, the passengers, including two women from England, disembark. Suddenly the older of the two women falls to the ground clutching her chest after a shot rings out from the hotel roof. Jim Hardie heads to the hotel where the shot came from but by the time Hardie and the Sheriff reach the roof the shooter is long gone.
After talking to the daughter, they learn the women were looking for a man named Aquith from England who embezzled 20,000 pounds and framed her father for it who is now in prison. Only the mother could identify Aquith. Private Investigators have told them Aquith has been in Morgan for two years. Hardie decides to help the useless Sheriff, who doesn't appreciate it, find the killer, and fitting that description of Aquith in regards to the time he arrived in town are four men, and, of course, none too happy to be implicated- when Hardie sets a trap he's sure it will be one of the four? Who is it?
Another episode with a mystery angle and it's really well done- it's a whodunnit, or maybe better, a 'who is it?' Four established citizens who arrived two years ago might be the killer- expect plot twists galore, attempts on the life of our heroine - the pretty Adrienne Hayes - and a neat unravelling of the fiend.
Tales of Wells Fargo: Lola Montez (1959)
Lola Montez
Jim Hardie has been sent to the New Mexico area to find and catch outlaw Zach Bradley who killed the Wells Fargo employee, Sam Bell. After four weeks on his trail Hardie achieves this and is now returning the outlaw to Tucson for trial via stage along with three other passengers, which includes the famous Irish-born Spanish dancer Lola Montez, her piano accompanist, Chris Hurley, and a businessman, Mr. Collins.
On the trail about two miles from the next relay station two Apaches stop the stage. Hardie talks to the leader who tells Jim they want Bradley as well for killing a squaw and her son. Hardie refuses to turn him over, telling them that Bradley will get white man's justice which does not satisfy them.
They reach the next relay station just before the Apaches attack. And there's a cat and mouse situation going on amongst the prisoner and passengers.
Before "she wished to be living in America" Rita Moreno had small roles such as this lively episode where she plays a bossy singer who constantly puts down her piano playing boyfriend- Hardie has to contend with her, the prisoner, an oily salesman and the Apaches. The latter feature in a good action sequence where they attack the fort.
Tales of Wells Fargo: The Rawhide Kid (1959)
The Rawhide Kid
Jim Hardie rides upon the Hampton place and finds a man shot in the head, his daughter also shot in the head. The man was holding a wanted poster that is 20 years old for the Rawhide Kid who was really Harlow Shelby. Shelby was sent to prison for 20 years but was recently released.
Hearing a noise Hardie finds a young man passed out after crawling. He was only grazed in the head and soon recovers, and follows Hardie finds on the trail with the intention to get even with the killer - someone takes a shot at the two of them. They then travel to a town where they find the horse Hardie is looking for, it has a bar horseshoe on the left rear hoof. The girl, Norah Fuller, running the stable says the horse belongs to the doctor across the street.
They find the doctor dead shot in the head. Norah's father, Sheriff Fuller, denies knowing about the Rawhide Kid but Hardie soon learns the killer hasn't left town. And he's after the hidden loot ...
A grisly murder (gory for 1959!), a twenty year old case, hidden loot, and a mystery that has Hardie searching for answers. Troy Donahue, teen heartthrob, joins him in the quest to find the killer and it turns out to be someone we saw once. I like mystery/killer in the loose elements in a western, and it's quite enjoyable, however we needed more suspects; maybe a longer running time would've been needed.
Tales of Wells Fargo: Red Ransom (1960)
Red Ransom
Jim Hardie is working with the Chickasaw Wells Fargo Agent, Clay Arvin, to capture the Apache renegade outlaw Joe Black, and they manage to capture him, but from afar the local Apache chief Akana is watching them.
After locking Joe Black in the local jail, Clay invites Jim home for dinner with his wife Clara and daughter Jenny. While there they learn Jenny has not returned so Clay and Jim ride out to look for her. As they find her berry picking basket, they are confronted by Akana who shows them he has Jenny. He wants to trade her for Joe Black, his brother, by the end of the next day.
The city fathers meet on the issue and decide to turn Joe Black loose despite Jim and Luke the Marshal refusing to go along with the idea. However, they use Clara to trick Jim and release Joe Black. Jim goes after Joe Black after a delay and discovers Joe is not headed back to Akana. Hardie faces Joe and injured him, but by the time he gets to Akana's camp Joe dies, which makes Alana want to kill the girl ...
One thing I didn't understand and that was Hardie not willing to let Joe Black go. Sure he is a killer but surely the girl's life is more important- he could have escorted Joe Black to Akana's camp and make sure the swap occurred, but hey it's still a good episode with a nice knife fight at the end, and a villainous turn by Frederick De Kova as Joe Black.
Tales of Wells Fargo: The Canyon (1960)
The Canyon
The gallows are being built and tested to hang Ken Gibbons in three days for committing murder while holding up a Wells Fargo stagecoach. He claims he is innocent and Jim Hardie believes him.
The passenger manifest says there was one passenger, Fred Kimball, who can clear Gibbons by identifying him. However, Kimball himself is wanted for embezzling funds from a bank. He is believed to be hiding in an outlaw sanctuary called "The Canyon of Wanted Men" run by Len Garner. Hardie decides to assume the name of an outlaw in Yuma Prison named Bill Stample. The cost to stay is 20% of any money he brings into the canyon.
Hardie soon meets his beautiful daughter Jane. Hardie talks to her about her father and manages to persuade Kimball to leave the canyon so he can stop the hanging, but first he must handle a man Red Cronin whose brother was killed by Stample. Plus, Garner learns that Stample was shot dead escaping Yuma - he and his fellow vipers ride after Hardie and the Kimballs.
Jean Ingram as Kimball's daughter is one beauty; a beauty amongst the nest of two-legged vipers with six guns - Hardie is looking for Kimball, the one man who can prove a man condemned to the gallows didn't commit murder. Quite enjoyable episode, loved the canyon set-up and Hardie's shooting trick as he drops from his saddle. Nice to see Andy Clyde as the man who saved Hardie's life.
Tales of Wells Fargo: The Killer (1958)
The Killer
Jim Hardie is assigned to guard a stagecoach carrying a large amount of money as well as Senator Claymore, who, during a short stop to rest the horses, almost gets shot - the shooter promptly flees. No one is hit and Hardie can't find any sign of the shooter.
When they reach town, the local Wells Fargo agent gives Hardie a message that explains it is the Senator who is in danger. Someone has sent a warning to Wells Fargo who has assigned Hardie to protect Senator Claymore. After ensuring the Senator is safely in his room, Hardie visits the saloon where Bud Crawford introduces himself as the person who warned Wells Fargo. He tells Hardie that his dad and two other men have hired a gunman to kill the Senator because of his land bill to turn over the rancher's land to which they have no title to homesteaders.
When the Senator refuses to obey Hardie's precautions, Hardie devices a plan to keep him safe until he can stop the killing.
George Keymas does what he's good at and that is playing a coldblooded killer. Quite an underrated villain - he has the kind of face that makes babies cry. Paul Fix plays an amiable senator who is clueless that a bullet out there has his name on it. A rather neat episode, though a little more suspense and Keymas not being out in the open would've been better.
Tales of Wells Fargo: Desert Showdown (1959)
Desert showdown
Jim Hardie is with a four man Army patrol led by Sgt. Tyler sent to Mexico to pick up the prisoner Yaqui Kid captured by Mexico. They are to return him to Fort Apache where he will be tried and probably hanged. Hardie is along for the ride to get the Kid to tell him where he has hidden the money he stole from Wells Fargo.
Yaqui Kid's wife Rita, who has been staying with him at the jail, joins them. Hardie tries to protect Rita from the soldiers but he soon senses some Yaquis are following them. They soon find themselves left with no horses when the guard leaves them and the men are picked off one by one, until Hardie is the only one left ...
Armand Alzamora is quite imposing and menacing as killer Yaqui Kid - his compadres are even lethal picking off the soldiers one by one, not that you feel sorry for the soldiers as they are unsavoury bunch, especially the sgt. There is a fine balance between psychological, action and drama, all collated in a brisk package.
Tales of Wells Fargo: White Indian (1958)
White Indian
As Jim Hardie and the Sheriff come out of the Sheriff's office, they witness a storekeeper throwing a young Choctaw brave out of his store. The boy appearing to be eighteen or nineteen says Wells Fargo and gives the Sheriff a piece of paper. It is a Wells Fargo bill of lading for a four year old boy named Tommy McCrea being shipped by his grandmother in St. Louis to his parents out west fourteen years ago. Hardie takes the boy who speaks no English under his protection.
Hardie learns that the boy was found by a stage wreckage and raised by the tribe but the tribe no longer wants him as they hate whites. After sending some telegrams, he learns the boy's mother may be Mrs. Lawson but she doesn't recognize him leaving Hardie in a quandary. Apparently because the boy doesn't have a birthmark under his eye, which would be proof that he's her son ..,
Hardie stands up to racist folk in this solid episode as he tries to reunite a young boy raised by jnjuns with his mother- there's a little intrigue and villainy at the end as someone wants the boy dead.
Tales of Wells Fargo: Showdown Trail (1959)
Showdown Trail
Jim Hardie is transporting prisoner Ed Dooley to San Francisco by train when it is forced to stop as a pile of wood are dumped on the track, courtesy of Joe Dooley and his two sons. They want Ed but Hardie is handcuffed to Ed. Hardie says he mailed the key ahead to San Francisco.
Joe shoots and kills Wells Fargo agent Steve Adams when trying to force Hardie to produce the key. As Hardie truly doesn't have the key, he is forced to leave with the gang. They ride to George Samson's farm where they use a hammer and chisel to break the cuffs. As soon as they are cut apart, Hardie sees a chance to run and escape otherwise he is a dead man.
Despite Ed's pleas, Joe decides to forget Hardie but Hardie wants not only Ed but Joe as well - pitting himself against a four man gang ...
This action-packed episode features a cold-blooded killer called Ed Dooley and his family headed by Joe Dooley are just as dysfunctional and kill-happy and that includes the beautiful Gloria Talbot. A solid entry with adequate tension, nice scenery and action.
Tales of Wells Fargo: The Town That Wouldn't Talk (1959)
The Town that wouldn't Talk
Jim Hardie has been sent to check on the death of a Wells Fargo employee at a remote town. They received notification with no indication of what he died of. Along the way Hardie notices some men burying a cow which is unusual.
He arrives in the town and checks in to the hotel and asks the clerk Justin Peevey about the late employee and he tells Hardie that he is buried outside of town and died of natural causes. As Hardie goes to his room he hears moans out of a room across the hall, and later sees an elderly man sitting in a chair shaking. Mr. Peevey says the man, Jansen, is drunk. But then the man keels over ands dead.
Upon returning to his room a woman, Marsha Cook, is running around looking for her husband Ed cook, the man who was moaning earlier. She tells Hardie about him being sick and her sick son still in his bed. Upon seeing the problems, Hardie, despite protests from Peevey, rides to the next town for a doctor who says he suspects an anthrax outbreak, which has Hardie realizing what is happening and why the employee died.
A good episode with neat suspense and mystery - Bill Erwin plays the clerk who is involved in the scheme to sell infected cows. He's an interesting character and I liked how he answered Hardie's queries with an air of dismissiveness. "Oh don't worry the boy doesn't need a doctor -kids get sick every time!!" Sounds like a politician!
Tales of Wells Fargo: Terry (1959)
Terry
While in the area Jim Hardie stops by a Wells Fargo relay station that has reported the theft of several horses. He is greeted at the door by the pretty and young Terry (Theresa) Tate (Judi Meredith) who is a tomboy in all ways. Her father Sam runs the relay station. He tells Jim that the unbranded horses were stolen only a couple of days after they were bought from the local horse trader Homer Beasley and before he could brand them.
Jim follows up with Homer who confirms Sam's story and produces a bill of sale for the horses from Mexico where they don't brand horses normally. He and his hand, Charley, say they were both at the stable the night the horses were stolen. Terry who is interested in neighbor Jack Barton is shocked when Homer arrives to tell Jim that he spotted some of the stolen horses in Jack's corral. Hardy goes to check and Jim claims that Homer sold it to him but he's unable to produce a bill of sale, so he's put in the hoosegow.
Judi Meredith is one eye candy, here she plays a Tom boy who has two suitors, one of them is a villain - it's a nice and steady episode with a decent plot.
Wagon Train: The Bije Wilcox Story (1958)
The Bilge Wilcox story
The wagon train is pinned down by threatening Cheyenne Indians. Flint has gone for the Army to provide an escort. While waiting, Bije Wilcox walks into camp looking for Francis Mason. Mason has offered a $5,000 reward leading to finding his lost brother. Against advice to not go Mason leaves with Wilcox.
Wilcox leads him to a remote site to sit and wait for Medicinie Mark who hates all white men and has never let a live white man leave his presence. Wilcox tells Mason that Medicine Mark is his brother. The Cheyenne take the two men captive and Mason learns that Wilcox told the truth. The brothers were raised in Virginia under an intolerant father. As a boy Medicine Mark was against slavery and was despised by all his friends including his own brother so he feels he has no white family or brother. To prove his love Mason decides to become Medicine Mark's Cheyenne brother by going through their ceremony which involves great pain.
It's quite a surprise to see Chill wills play a slimy character - usually plays sidekicks and general good guys. This episode is a little on the drab side, a bit too talky, but in intriguing in parts.