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The Happy Tree
Tales of Wells Fargo - S3 - E15
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.
Tales of Wells Fargo: Season 3 - 39 Episode s
3x1 - The Gambler
September 8, 1958
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.
3x2 - The Manuscript
September 15, 1958
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.
3x3 - White Indian
September 22, 1958
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.
3x4 - The Golden Owl
September 29, 1958
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.
3x5 - Faster Gun
October 6, 1958
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.
3x6 - Butch Cassidy
October 13, 1958
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.
3x7 - End of the Trail
October 20, 1958
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.
3x8 - A Matter of Honor
November 3, 1958
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.
3x9 - The Most Dangerous Man Alive
November 10, 1958
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 ,000 bounty on him so he trusts no one including Hardie who has no interest in him.
3x10 - The Gunfighter
November 17, 1958
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.
3x11 - The Deserter
November 24, 1958
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.
3x12 - The Killer
December 1, 1958
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.
3x13 - The Counterfeiters
December 8, 1958
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.
3x14 - Cow Town
December 15, 1958
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.
3x15 - The Happy Tree
December 22, 1958
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.
3x16 - The Dealer
December 29, 1958
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.
3x17 - Showdown Trail
January 5, 1959
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.
3x18 - Luke Frazer
January 12, 1959
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.
3x19 - Wild Cargo
January 19, 1959
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.
3x20 - The Cleanup
January 26, 1959
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.
3x21 - Fort Massacre
February 2, 1959
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.
3x22 - The Town That Wouldn't Talk
February 9, 1959
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.
3x23 - Lola Montez
February 16, 1959
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.
3x24 - The Branding Iron
February 23, 1959
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.
3x25 - The House I Enter
March 2, 1959
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.
3x26 - The Legacy
March 9, 1959
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.
3x27 - The Rawhide Kid
March 16, 1959
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.
3x28 - Toll Road
March 23, 1959
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.
3x29 - The Tired Gun
March 30, 1959
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.
3x30 - Terry
April 6, 1959
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.
3x31 - The Last Stand
April 13, 1959
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.
3x32 - Bob Dawson
April 22, 1959
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.
3x33 - The Tall Texan
April 27, 1959
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.
3x34 - Doc Holliday
May 4, 1959
Jim Hardie at a stop finds a stagecoach holdup netted ,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.
3x35 - Kid Curry
May 11, 1959
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.
3x36 - The Little Man
May 18, 1959
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.
3x37 - The Daltons
May 25, 1959
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.
3x38 - The Bounty Hunter
June 1, 1959
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.
3x39 - Clay Allison
June 15, 1959
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.