Dan Duryea did the first of many appearances on Wagon Train with this episode. He was probably the actor that did more guest star appearances than any other in the history of the show.
In this story Duryea plays an old desert rat, spinner of tall yarns usually in the manner of Andy Devine, but an old friend of Jim Bridger who knew Flint McCullough way back as a lad. He joins the Wagon Train and is welcomed by all.
While on a buffalo hunt for food for the Wagon Train, Duryea gets himself on the wrong end of a stampede. He looks like a goner for sure and Robert Horton volunteers to stay with him to the end. So does another passenger Russell Johnson. But Johnson has some ulterior motives, he wants the location of a gold mine that Duryea claims to have discovered.
As it turns out Duryea has some remarkable recuperative powers which leads to some serious Treasure Of The Sierra Madre type drama out on the plains.
It's not The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, but Duryea is never bad in anything and for once it's nice to see him as a good guy, a bit of a prairie Baron Munchaussen.
In this story Duryea plays an old desert rat, spinner of tall yarns usually in the manner of Andy Devine, but an old friend of Jim Bridger who knew Flint McCullough way back as a lad. He joins the Wagon Train and is welcomed by all.
While on a buffalo hunt for food for the Wagon Train, Duryea gets himself on the wrong end of a stampede. He looks like a goner for sure and Robert Horton volunteers to stay with him to the end. So does another passenger Russell Johnson. But Johnson has some ulterior motives, he wants the location of a gold mine that Duryea claims to have discovered.
As it turns out Duryea has some remarkable recuperative powers which leads to some serious Treasure Of The Sierra Madre type drama out on the plains.
It's not The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, but Duryea is never bad in anything and for once it's nice to see him as a good guy, a bit of a prairie Baron Munchaussen.
