This episode finds Jack Kelly looking to take any kind of work to get to Deadwood
and poker. But Kelly needs a grubstake so he takes a job scouting for Scotsman
Alan Caillou's wagon train to Deadwood. Not that's he Buffalo Bill, but Kelly
does know the way there.
It's quite an interesting group on the wagon train especially the women. Arlene
Howell is running off with the loot from her boyfriend's bank robbery, Nancy
Gates is planning to kill her husband, and Diane McBain is a blossoming late
teen beauty.
They have all kinds of adventures enough for a few Wagon Train episodes if
done individually. The most interesting is the pilgrims fleeing to an abandoned cavalry fort with Indians close on their heels. So why are there no
soldiers there?
You have to watch a pretty episode to see how all these subplots are resolved.
