Rawhide — Season 4

Sept 196148m

Rowdy and Hey Soos are robbed by Antonio Marcos. He is leading a revolution against the Texas land grant. Rowdy meets his Dad, who ran out on him and his Ma.

Oct 196148m

The drovers are beating the scrub for strays. Favor finds wagon remains and twelve graves.

Oct 1961

An overbearing Favor leads to many drovers quitting. Five replacements stir trouble.

Oct 1961

Quince gets a letter. He needs a couple of days off. Jim, Pete, Rowdy and Hey Soos go to Hando Seco. Casey the bartender knocks their drinks out of their hands when he finds out they rode in with Jim. Jim asks Judge Matt Quince how's his niece Joanna. She wants help running away. She's in love with Brad Lyons. He has a murder warrant on his head.

Oct 1961

Indians stampede the herd. The sheriff says it's a 100 Cheyenne headed for Mexico. Pete picks up their trail. Pete asks Rowdy not to tell Favor right away. Little Hawk, the Chief, is the father of Pete's dead wife.

Nov 19611h

Craddock and Clay Forrester plot to steal the herd. Shelia Brewster is running away from her army fiancee.

Nov 1961

Favor asks sheepherder,Tod Stone, to let the herd pass his flock. He won't. They take the herd over the ridge to the next valley. Tod takes a shortcut and beats them. Rowdy and Collins scatter the flock. Tod the herd. Rowdy fights Tod. Tod falls on his scaling knife. Favor tells Rowdy he's taking Tod and his flock to Twin Hat.

Nov 19611h

Favor finds a circus that is lost. Pascal the owner and clown beats his wife, Jenny, who wants to run away with Dario the other half of her high wire act.

Nov 1961

Gilmore tells Favor there's a panic brewing back east. He needs to cut ten days off the drive. Gilmore says don't tell the drovers about the panic. Tom Gwynn ,a fishbreeder, is sick with fever. He's taking shad to California to claim a $10,000 prize.

Dec 19611h

A woman wanders into camp needing help. She is an actress who one of the men recognizes later. She worked as a Union spy during the war. Although most of the men hate her, one even more so as he was court-martialed due to her.

Dec 1961

Favor gets caught between Lord Ashton, hunting the white buffalo and Buffalo Bob Driscoll. Ashton entrusts Woolsey, his valet, to Favor.

Dec 1961

Mushy tells Wish he sees Santa Claus - Mr. Bateman - in Texas in the middle of August. Bateman is lost. He keels over. He, his wife Mag, and their nine-year-old boy, Danny, are on their way to New York. Danny won't last until Christmas.

Jan 19621h

Martha Hastings is running a way station for outlaws. Rowdy, Pete and Wish are hired as census takers.

Jan 19621h

Nora Holloway is ambitious for her captain husband to advance. She resorts to lying.

Jan 1962

The drovers discover peddler Mendel J. Sorkin trying to drive a small herd of cattle all by himself. Mendel wants to sell the herd in a nearby town and use the money to return to his native country.

Jan 1962

Pete and Rowdy find a whole herd of good looking women heading to Fort Worth to get married.

Feb 19621h

The drover are stopped by fence at Vance Caldwell's ranch and are told they will have to wait until he returns to get permission to pass. But the fence isn't Favor's only problem, his daughters are about to join him on the trail.

Feb 19621h

The indians want to trade six soldiers they hold for thier Chief. Favor is commissioned as a captain to make the exchange.

Feb 19621h

Ada Randolph offers the town $300,000 if they find her dead son, a convicted murderer innocent, and run the sheriff out of town.

Feb 19621h

On a trip to collect a debt, Rowdy sees an elderly woman apparently hounded by thieves. After rescuing her they go to a nearby town where Rowdy is to collect the debt and she awaits a stage. However, she frames Rowdy for multiple thefts.

Mar 19621h

When Frank is killed by indians, a collection is taken for his family. Clay suggests a poker game to run it up.

Mar 19621h

A thirteen year old indian is going to Fort Lacey to see his sister. The commandant hates all indians. He and his wife Azuela have a son.

Mar 19621h

Quince, Clay and Wish are captured and told by Count Ulrich they are his property and will work on his manor house.

Mar 19621h

Mushy's cousin asks him to take her sister to his mom, to get out of the saloons. She doesn't want to go.

Mar 19621h

A wagon falls on Harve. Rowdy and Favor go for a doctor. Dr. Daniel Pearson, a quack, says he's the only doctor in town. Mrs. James directs them to Dr. Louise Amadon.

Apr 19621h

Pete's friend Grey Hawk's son, Wild Horse has escaped and is raiding. General Perry is bringing 500 head of cattle for the indians. Pete is leading Lieutenant Matthew Perry to his father.

Apr 19621h

A deaf mute delivers a letter for Rowdy at the camp. Rowdy picks up a guy, Kilo, whose wagon was stolen. They make camp. In the morning, Kilo and the horses are gone. Rowdy walks to a house and enters. The door shuts behind him. Mackie and five others lock Rowdy in a room. Someone shoots at Rowdy from outside. The six are being held prisoner.

May 19621h

Hosea Brewer has been prospecting Lost Mine ten years after everyone has left. The thought of gold and his three daughters attract the drovers.

May 19621h

Favor wants to fatten the herd for a week. Another herd is three to five days behind. The trail boss is Ben Wade and all the drovers are old. Charlie Holt , owners representative, comes onto Helen Wade, and vice versa. Two of Wade's cattle have Texas Tick.

May 1962

The herd finally arrives in Abilene, the end of a long, hard drive. While most of the drovers plan to spend their pay painting the town, Favor has a few other ideas. He is going to buy some land and get out of the cattle business. Don Grenfell also has been told to quit due to a bad back. The drovers are all quarantined at Oddity House due to small pox.