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Wagon Train is an American Western television series that aired for eight seasons, first on the NBC television network (1957–1962) and then on ABC (1962–1965). Wagon Train debuted on September 18, 1957 and reached the top of the Nielsen ratings .
Thomas Jefferson Farnham (1804–1848) was an explorer and author of the American West in the first half of the 19th century. His travels included interaction with missionary Jason Lee, and he later led a wagon train on the Oregon Trail.
A fellow traveler, a Methodist clergyman named Mr. Sharp, joined them a few days later. A couple of weeks after that, William and Sarah Larimer and their eight-year-old son Frank, with whom the Kellys were acquainted, left a large wagon train to accompany them. [3] The party was later joined by Noah Daniel Taylor, who drove the Larimers' wagon. [3]
A Man Called Horse by Dorothy M. Johnson was originally published as a short story in Collier's magazine, January 7, 1950, [1] and was reprinted in 1953 as a short story in her book Indian Country. It was later made into a Wagon Train episode in 1958 [2] and into a film in 1970 with Richard Harris in the lead role as John Morgan and Manu Tupou ...
Cherokee Trail near Fort Collins, Colorado, from a sketch taken 7 June 1859.. The Cherokee Trail was a historic overland trail through the present-day U.S. states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming that was used from the late 1840s up through the early 1890s.
The wagon train, made up mostly of families from Arkansas, was bound for California, traveling on the Old Spanish Trail that passed through the Territory. After arriving in Salt Lake City , the Baker–Fancher party made their way south along the Mormon Road , eventually stopping to rest at Mountain Meadows.
The Way West is a 1949 western novel by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. [1] The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1950 [2] and became the basis for a film starring Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, and Richard Widmark.
Barbara Stanwyck, Michael Burns, and Colleen Dewhurst in The Big Valley episode "A Day of Terror" (1966). Michael Thornton Burns (born December 30, 1947) is an American professor emeritus of history at Mount Holyoke College, [2] and a published author and former television and film teen actor, most known for the television series Wagon Train.