Nevertheless, part of what made Wagon Train so special was the cast itself, which suffered a major change about halfway through the series' run. No Western reached quite as highly as this one ...

Cautiously, as the two men ride across hostile Apache territory, they will join Colonel Normand's wagon train of women and children, only to be ambushed and massacred by the Indians whose families ...

In return, they allow the settlers to move across Indian territory unhindered and to hunt a few buffalo needed to feed the wagon-train settlers. However, not everyone in the region is friendly ...