Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3, Episode 39: Clay Allison

1

The Gambler

When a stage breaks down, a passenger who is returning home after three years in prison for a crime he said he didn't commit, becomes upset with his treatment. Hardie decides to take a gamble on him with a loan to solve a dispute.

30 min

2

The Manuscript

Bob Dawson has been paroled to Jim Hardie and is living at Brisbane, Nebraska where he regales the people with stories he is writing about them. Worried about his stories someone hires Nedy West to kill him and steal his manuscript.

30 min

3

White Indian

While Jim Hardie is in a town a Choctaw boy shows up with a note from Wells Fargo talking about a boy being ship to his parents from his grandmother. Hardie has to determine if the boy is the boy in the note and where his parents are.

30 min

4

The Golden Owl

While attempting to deliver a golden owl to its wealthy purchaser, Hardy is attacked and the owl is replaced by one of lead by someone while a Chinese religious society claims the owl was stolen from their temple in China.

30 min

5

Faster Gun

After being gunned down by Johnny Reno, Jim Hardie is promoted to District Superintendent but finds he doesn't like office work. He decides to join his replacement to go after Reno. It appears he has an inside source at the El Paso office.

30 min

6

Butch Cassidy

When Butch Cassidy is released from prison, Jim Hardie, who sent him to prison, is tasked with asking him to work for Wells Fargo. While on a train, Butch meets an outlaw friend, Idaho, who with others are planning to rob the train.

30 min

7

End of the Trail

So that a stagecoach road through the Dakota Black Hills can be completed, Hardie arrives to negotiate with the Pawnees who have killed a crew's hunter consigning the crew to meager rations and who continually harass the crew.

30 min

8

A Matter of Honor

Hardie arrives in Medicine River to help set up a new office. He is greeted at the office by an employee who is the son of a Cheyenne chief he knew when the boy was young but the locals are unhappy he is to be the driver on the route.

30 min

9

The Most Dangerous Man Alive

Jim Hardie's task of catching the Manning Brothers is interrupted when his attempt to help a stranded man backfires. The man, John Leslie Nagel, has a $25,000 bounty on him so he trusts no one including Hardie who has no interest in him.

30 min

10

The Gunfighter

Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to Comanche, Texas to find the Rucker brothers who are hanging around there. Unknown to Hardie, John Wesley Hardin is there, a cousin to the Rucker brothers and still holding a grudge against Hardie.

30 min

11

The Deserter

Hardie is sent to confer with the Colonel at Fort Chaplin which is closing now that a peace treaty has been signed. Wells Fargo is concerned about a rash of robberies in the area by a gang led by an ex-Army officer who deserted the Army.

30 min

12

The Killer

Jim Hardie is accompanying a stagecoach carrying a Senator. He has angered the large ranchers in the area with his plan to turn over untitled land to settlers. Three ranchers have hired a gunman to kill the Senator to protect their land.

30 min

13

The Counterfeiters

Wells Fargo is threaten with bankruptcy if they don't find the source of counterfeit Bills of Exchange used to move money. The one man they have caught with them refuses to talk to Hardie forcing him to find the source of them by himself.

30 min

14

Cow Town

Hardie teams up with railroad investigator, Mike Forbes, to solve a robbery of their joint office in Amity, Kansas. As they solve the robbery a second robbery occurs involving a murder and a stabbing causing issues with some Texas cowboys.

30 min

15

The Happy Tree

Jack Kramer soon to be executed asks Hardie to help his son change his evil tendency in exchange for stolen Wells Fargo gold so Hardie takes the son from an orphanage placing him with a family but Kramer's murderous partner follows.

30 min

16

The Dealer

Jim is going to Dodge to look for two men who robbed Wells Fargo in Yuba City. On the way he helps the Peel family with a broken wheel. In Dodge City Peel's gambling addiction has him losing all his money but it helps Jim solve his case.

30 min

17

Showdown Trail

Jim Hardie is held up by a family based gang to free a member Jim is cuffed to and transporting to jail. Once the cuffs are cut Jim is able to escape but his prisoner wants revenge against Hardie nor will Hardie leave without his prisoner.

30 min

18

Luke Frazer

Jim pursues Luke Frazer for murder right after he guns Bud Scanlon down. Hardie apprehends the gunslinger who's worried his impressionable brother Johnny is following in his footsteps. Hardie decides to help prevent that from happening.

30 min

19

Wild Cargo

Jim Hardie makes a trip to Oro Gulch to pick up a shipment finding himself riding with a four woman entertainment troupe. The trip seems to be linked to a series of robberies along the way - especially when Jim recognizes one of the women.

30 min

20

The Cleanup

Jim Hardie is sent to Silver City where a gang is trying to extort money from businesses including Wells Fargo to do business. Hardie arrives to find the local agent murdered and a has been Sheriff who is now a drunk in charge of the town.

30 min

21

Fort Massacre

Hardie brings an Army payroll into an Army fort under Indian attack. The only commander left, a green Lieutenant, is uncertain of his command and doubted by his men. Jim believes helping him will pay off when his true character comes out.

30 min

22

The Town That Wouldn't Talk

Jim arrives in Dakota territory to investigate the death of a company driver. But everyone in town is tight lipped about his death and others currently ill. After seeing a cow buried, Jim has an idea about what is causing people to sicken.

30 min

23

Lola Montez

Jim Hardie has been sent to catch outlaw Zach Bradley who killed a Wells Fargo employee. The stage they are on is stopped by two Apaches who want the same man for killing a squaw and her son but Hardie refuses which leads to a fight.

30 min

24

The Branding Iron

Hardie arrives at his friend Curly Brown's ranch learning Curlie was murdered. His widow struggles on her own and Jim becomes suspicious of the people ready to buy the place. As he solves the mystery he begins to fall in love with Etta.

30 min

25

The House I Enter

Hardie enters town as the Wells Fargo office is robbed. Tracking the suspects he encounters Doc Forrester who holds a grudge against Jim. They are taken to the Haggerty farm where Leroy is seeking medical aid for his wounded brother Ollie.

30 min

26

The Legacy

Jim Hardie is checking on the estate a man many think was an outlaw passed to a man known to be the son of the outlaw. He has arrived to claim the homestead. Hardie finds a neighbor will do anything to drive the son off the property.

30 min

27

The Rawhide Kid

Jim Hardie stumbles on to a man and his daughter shot in the head. The dead man was holding a wanted poster for the Rawhide Kid who was wanted 20 years earlier. He finds a young man who was grazed who Hardie decides to use as a lure.

30 min

28

Toll Road

Hardie has his hands full with an escaped criminal Buff, Sheriff Huckaby considered a coward and a new road house manager who's a former drinker. Also a driver intent on setting a record plus a fancy lady with a tart tongue.

30 min

29

The Tired Gun

Jim Hardie tries to help pretty Pearl Watkins with her brother Ira who is becoming an outlaw but is not wanted by Wells Fargo. His attempt fails but it is not long before he and the Bill Tobey gang hit a Wells Fargo bank leaving two dead.

30 min

30

Terry

Jim Hardie stops by a relay station that has reported a theft of several horses. He is met at the door by a pretty young woman who unknowingly is at the center of the theft as a man vies for her hand versus the man he frames for the theft.

30 min

31

The Last Stand

Jim Hardie is sent to accompany a delayed and large payroll for a mine at Daleyville. Complicating things, there is an employee who feels under appreciated by Wells Fargo but he has become a drunk trying to live up to his one claim on fame.

30 min

32

Bob Dawson

Jim Hardie makes a visit to his parolee Bob Dawson. While there someone tries to rob the Wells Fargo office killing a sleeping man. The technique used is a copy of one Dawson used 27 years earlier so the Marshal wants to lock up Dawson.

30 min

33

The Tall Texan

A tip sends Jim Hardie to Wagner, Montana on the outlook for outlaws. At the hotel he runs into Laurie Hammer who ran away from home with the outlaw Will Carver. He tells her he recently saw her parents and they would like her to return.

30 min

34

Doc Holliday

Jim Hardie at a stop finds a stagecoach holdup netted $50,000 in crisp new bills and Doc Holliday and his wife Amy are there. When Amy receives some of the bills from Doc she accuses him of staging the robbery but Jim is doubtful.

30 min

35

Kid Curry

Jim Hardie is sent after Kid Curry who has his Wells Fargo at Blue Cross, Wyoming. Hardie is able to catch him near Knoxville, Tennessee after he has been shot. However, Kid Curry tells Jim he won't be taken alive the next time by anyone.

30 min

36

The Little Man

Jim Hardie is in Clay City when the stage comes in driven by two passengers with the driver and shotgun dead and the cash stolen. They say two men held it up but Hardie suspects the two passengers but one of them would seem incapable.

30 min

37

The Daltons

Jim Hardie has been sent to capture the Dalton brothers by Wells Fargo after they strike several express shipments. Jim having worked with Bob goes to their mother's house to find them. However, when the boys show up, he is captured.

30 min

38

The Bounty Hunter

Hardie is sent in to investigate a railroad holdup with cash stolen and two railroad men wounded. With a big reward for the remaining outlaw, a bounty hunter named Briscoe is on the trail and he will do anything to eliminate competition.

30 min

39

Clay Allison

Jim Hardie is sent to investigate the theft of a shipment of saloon equipment to Clay Allison, gunfighter, who has a hot temper. Hardie suspects that his competitor, Taggert, stole the shipment and the sheriff might be working for Taggert.

30 min