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Season 8
Sep. 14, 1965
Encounter at Boot Hill
Rowdy's going to Wichita to seek justice after two of his drovers are shot, trying to stop a lynching of two Hispanics in former slavery stronghold, Clay County, Missouri, 5 years after the end of the U.S. Civil War. The Kane father/son hanging party killed the accused to revenge the beating death of the abler of the Kane brothers, serving time in the local jail with the lynched men. The surviving brother tried to stop both the lynching and the shooting, but father Morgan refused the disabled Jethroe's pleas. New trail boss Rowdy takes the surviving trail-hand, along ...
Sep. 21, 1965
Ride a Crooked Mile
Jed, scouting for water, is ambushed by a stranger, Danny Hawks, who thinks Jed is out to steal his horse. Fast talking gets Danny to follow Jed back to the main herd and a meeting with Rowdy Yates the trail boss. After some reservations Rowdy agrees to take the man on. Jed becomes obsessed with Danny's horse. That night a group of men ride into camp led by Nat Benson, claiming Danny is a horse thief, and they want to string him up. Yates refuses to cooperate till they get a warrant. Days pass and everyone working the herd gets progressively edgier. Benson reveals he ...
Sep. 28, 1965
Six Weeks to Bent Fork
Rowdy eats crow and his regular crew might get no pay, because they show up late to a new owner's roundup. Trail boss Rowdy must complete this drive in six weeks or get no fee, plus the deal includes the rancher's foreman Lash as Segundo. The flexibility and principles Rowdy learned from Gil Favor, conflict with ramrod Lash's attack mode. Lash bulls the steer-men hard, makes good time, and plenty of enemies too, including starving Arapaho, who Lash drives off before they can even plead for some tender beef, for their families back at the reservation. The Arapaho ...
Oct. 5, 1965
Walk into Terror
A mine cave-in traps Simon and Quince, after Rowdy sent them in to check out the shaft's stability, before the drive ventures through the ravaged mountain pass adjacent. In the quarry, a bear-like creature attacked Quince, then Simon's gunshots at the beast caused the cave-in. Cowhands Ed & Jerry, who aren't pulling their weight on the drive, come forward with a way to free the drovers before they perish from gas. Ed already scavenged gun-jell from the abandoned mine camp, and claims to know how to blast the rubble away - but only for a $500 fee. With no other help ...
Nov. 23, 1965
Brush War at Buford
Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood), was ordered to sell a hundred prime beef by an Army Regiment but he refused to give them up without payment in gold, landing him in a fight with the Lieutneant who having the drop on Yates winged him with disabling effect. Later, when the Lieutenant returned with with his Captain, Jed Colby (John Ireland) as next up boss sold them 100 head accepting a signed requisition under duress and was told to redeem it at a Fort Broxton 40 miles ahead. Turns out the whole regiment was a bogus cattle rustler outfit and our drovers had to fight it out...
Nov. 30, 1965
The Testing Post
When a detachment of army cavalry requisitions a hundred head of cattle from the drovers, Rowdy attempts to get reimbursed by the army. To his chagrin, he discovers the cavalry officers are really cattle rustlers.
Dec. 7, 1965
Crossing at White Feather
Rowdy's hanging off a white cliff in the series' last episode when a rattler spooks trail-guide Jonas. Jonas' son Aaron throws a rope to save Rowdy, not his father, because Jonas has become an embarrassing slacker. Jonas fakes injuries from the fall to weasel out of leading the herd to a dangerous river, which Rowdy dares to confront, rather than venture a plothole-ridden mountain pass urged by Jonas. When Rowdy finds a blotto Jonas malingering, liquor stashed under his bedroll, he fires both father and son. Childless Rowdy's Oedipal abandonment issues surface via his...
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