Well, I decided to finish watching this episode and decided it wasn't such a bad story after all. Turned out that the"Indian" riding into camp was actually a white man who, after "proving" himself, had been adopted into the Crow tribe and had lived with them for several years. He had even married one of their women and they had conceived a child who, however, was born dead. Not only that but his Indian wife soon passed away also. Consumed with grief, he decides to return to the whites. On the way, he decides to go by the Indian burial place and bid his wife goodbye again. While there, the old squaw who has been his adoptive Indian mother crawls up. She's in a bad way so he decides to seek help from the wagon train. I won't tell the rest, just in case others buy this set. Don't want to spoil it for 'em.
I've come to the conclusion that the earlier, black-and-white episodes with Ward Bond are better than the color episodes with whats-his-face.
You know Stumpy, that sounds like the movies A Man Called Horse and Return Of A Man Called Horse starring the late Richard Harris. Of course, the Wagon Train story was probably done before them. In fact, maybe someone saw the WT show and decided the storyline would make a great movie.
While I'm at it. I was on Amazon and noticed the old Wyatte Earp series is now out on dvd. I also noticed that others are, too. They have shows like The Restless Gun, The Texan, Riverboat, The Deputy, The Tall Man and, Cimmaron City. IN the case of The Restless Gun and The Texan, those shows only ran for two years and you can get both season in one set, about 70 episodes.
