TALES OF WELLS FARGO "The Target" 1957
TALES OF WELLS FARGO was a western series than ran for a total of 200 episodes between 1957 and 1962. Dale Robertson plays the lead as Jim Hardee. Hardee is an agent for the stage and cargo hauling outfit. When something goes wrong he is the man they send to fix it.
This episode is the 19th of the series. Wells Fargo man, Hardee (Dale Robertson) is on his way by stage to Wyoming. On the way he runs into one of Wells Fargo's Pony Express riders, Robert Henry. The two men talk for a bit and then Henry continues on his ride to Laramie.
Up the trail a piece are three men waiting in ambush. They shoot Henry off his horse and rifle through the mailbags. Not finding what they want, they take off with the one man, Rush Williams, lifting the dead riders watch. The men are all members of the less than "honest" Clanton bunch. The old man, Barton McLane is in charge of sons, Kelo Henderson and Williams.
The stage now rolls up and they find the body of Henry. Robertson finds a small bag with gold samples that the gang had overlooked. This is exactly what the Clanton's had been looking for. Robertson loads up the body on the stage and heads to Laramie.
He drops off the mail and gold at the office, and the body with the undertaker. His next job is to pay the new wife of the dead rider a call. Eilene Janssen, the widow, takes the death of her husband hard. He wants Robertson to find the men who did the deed and kill them.
Needless to say Robertson digs around and the three Clanton's pop up as the most likely suspects. They have a history of gold claim jumping. Robertson lets it out that he has the gold samples that Henry had been carrying. We all know who comes a calling looking for said samples. Iron is pulled and the meeting does not turn out the way the Clanton gang wanted.
This is a watchable episode that moves right along at a nice clip. The outdoor location work helps.
TALES OF WELLS FARGO was a western series than ran for a total of 200 episodes between 1957 and 1962. Dale Robertson plays the lead as Jim Hardee. Hardee is an agent for the stage and cargo hauling outfit. When something goes wrong he is the man they send to fix it.
This episode is the 19th of the series. Wells Fargo man, Hardee (Dale Robertson) is on his way by stage to Wyoming. On the way he runs into one of Wells Fargo's Pony Express riders, Robert Henry. The two men talk for a bit and then Henry continues on his ride to Laramie.
Up the trail a piece are three men waiting in ambush. They shoot Henry off his horse and rifle through the mailbags. Not finding what they want, they take off with the one man, Rush Williams, lifting the dead riders watch. The men are all members of the less than "honest" Clanton bunch. The old man, Barton McLane is in charge of sons, Kelo Henderson and Williams.
The stage now rolls up and they find the body of Henry. Robertson finds a small bag with gold samples that the gang had overlooked. This is exactly what the Clanton's had been looking for. Robertson loads up the body on the stage and heads to Laramie.
He drops off the mail and gold at the office, and the body with the undertaker. His next job is to pay the new wife of the dead rider a call. Eilene Janssen, the widow, takes the death of her husband hard. He wants Robertson to find the men who did the deed and kill them.
Needless to say Robertson digs around and the three Clanton's pop up as the most likely suspects. They have a history of gold claim jumping. Robertson lets it out that he has the gold samples that Henry had been carrying. We all know who comes a calling looking for said samples. Iron is pulled and the meeting does not turn out the way the Clanton gang wanted.
This is a watchable episode that moves right along at a nice clip. The outdoor location work helps.
