There's no real main story to this Wagon Train episode, just a series of interconnecting dramas involving several people.
The underlying theme however is that even a big Wagon Train like the Chris Hale Train has to have a manageable number of passengers. Some don't make the whole trip to California and passengers are subtracted and added at almost every stop. What John McIntire is dealing with is a number of applicants who want to make the journey and he has only a few slots.
Lola Albright is traveling with her maid Willa Pearl Curtis to join her army husband at his post. Peter Brown has just been released from prison and he and his wife Gail Gilmore want to put plenty of distance between them and former running buddy Bruce Dern who's out to get him. Eldely couple Russell Thorson and Barbara Woodell are traveling west to visit their grandkids, but he's sicker than he's letting on. And two orphan kids Jay North and Dennis Holmes are running away from blacksmith Walter Coy who North is apprenticed to.
All these stories interconnect and it's a nice ensemble with the regular cast that delivers the goods in this fine Wagon Train story.
The underlying theme however is that even a big Wagon Train like the Chris Hale Train has to have a manageable number of passengers. Some don't make the whole trip to California and passengers are subtracted and added at almost every stop. What John McIntire is dealing with is a number of applicants who want to make the journey and he has only a few slots.
Lola Albright is traveling with her maid Willa Pearl Curtis to join her army husband at his post. Peter Brown has just been released from prison and he and his wife Gail Gilmore want to put plenty of distance between them and former running buddy Bruce Dern who's out to get him. Eldely couple Russell Thorson and Barbara Woodell are traveling west to visit their grandkids, but he's sicker than he's letting on. And two orphan kids Jay North and Dennis Holmes are running away from blacksmith Walter Coy who North is apprenticed to.
All these stories interconnect and it's a nice ensemble with the regular cast that delivers the goods in this fine Wagon Train story.
