As is their wont the Cartwrights take in a shy young drifter played by Richard Evans and give him a job. While he's still ailing they even let him stay at the big house. But as always the young man has a past.
This story touches on something I saw back in my days with NYS Crime Victims Board, the fact that prostitute deaths are just recorded and probably not even investigated. Seems it was that way in the old west as well though this was television and we did call them 'saloon girls'.
Evans as a kid was taken in by such a 'saloon girl' and raised as her own. She got between Evans and a bullet meant for him and the cowboy who shot her was acquitted by a jury of his peers. Understandably that was a verdict Evans failed to respect and he settled things in his own way with the perpetrator. Now he's a wanted man pursued from Texas to Virginia City by Ranger Willard Sage.
Also an old friend of Lorne Greene's Richard Eastham is visiting with his daughter Linda Foster. She takes quite an interest in Evans. Will Evans do the right thing, some would argue he already has.
Prostitutes continue to be society's most disposable victims then and now.
This story touches on something I saw back in my days with NYS Crime Victims Board, the fact that prostitute deaths are just recorded and probably not even investigated. Seems it was that way in the old west as well though this was television and we did call them 'saloon girls'.
Evans as a kid was taken in by such a 'saloon girl' and raised as her own. She got between Evans and a bullet meant for him and the cowboy who shot her was acquitted by a jury of his peers. Understandably that was a verdict Evans failed to respect and he settled things in his own way with the perpetrator. Now he's a wanted man pursued from Texas to Virginia City by Ranger Willard Sage.
Also an old friend of Lorne Greene's Richard Eastham is visiting with his daughter Linda Foster. She takes quite an interest in Evans. Will Evans do the right thing, some would argue he already has.
Prostitutes continue to be society's most disposable victims then and now.
