Tales of Wells Fargo

Young Jim Hardie rides into a Texas border town. He is young, wild. He has lately left his Louisiana home as a result of a blighted romance. He has ridden the back trails.

The Yaqui Kid is a renegade Apache. He has murdered settlers in Arizona, has robbed Wells Fargo and then crossed the Rio Grande to take refuge in Mexico.

Soldier O'Malley was a prizefight champion in the bare-knuckle days. He has fallen upon evil times - too old to fight - too unused to work.

A little old lady, Mrs. Priscilla Lane, boards the stagecoach at Salida to go to Leadville. She is worried about outlaws and robbers, since she has $40.00 in her bag.

Jim Hardie arrives at the town of Cougar Canyon to arrange the final details relating to the purchase by Wells Fargo, of the Braddock Stage Line.

An outlaw band gets wind of an unusual money shipment, a million dollars in old United States currency that is being sent to the mint to be destroyed.

Jim Hardie is sent to the town of Rock Point after being summoned by the local Wells Fargo Agent. The agent has a problem. He has employed a woman, Ann Rawlins, to work in the office.

Jim Hardie, riding the stagecoach on the Tucson run, comes upon a group of cattlemen about to hang a young man. They claim that he is a cattle rustler and that they caught him red-handed.

Jess Wilton, a youthful outlaw, kills a Wells Fargo agent. Jim Hardie, on his trail, cannot get a positive identification, but his suspicions keep him on Jess' trail.

Young Matthew Land has served three years in the state's penitentiary for his part in a Wells Fargo robbery. He has been released and is returning to his home town.

There is a holdup in a Western town. The bandits, in shooting their way out of the holdup, drop a revolver which is picked up by Old John, a local character.

In a previous episode, Jim Hardie had an encounter with Doc Bell, a doctor turned outlaw. As the present story opens Doc Bell has served his time in prison but is still on parole.

The holdup of a stagecoach carrying $50,000 dollars in gold buillon brings Jim Hardie to the Arizona town of San Anselmo.

Jim Hardie is in the town of Prairie Lea on a routine job of guarding a bullion shipment. He meets Dangler, an outlaw he sent to prison three years ago.

A couple of outlaws who have become tired of Jim Hardie pursuing them, get together and offer a reward for Jim Hardie - but instead of "dead or alive", they make it simply "dead."

Walter Farr, agent of the Turkey Crossing relay station, telegraphs to Denver Wells Fargo office to send out a man to relieve him. He is ill, and has only a short time left.

Jim Hardie is on vacation in South Minnesota. He is living with the Heglunds, a Swedish family. Mr. and Mrs. Heglund leave the farm to help a neighbor.

Dan Mulvaney, a real dude from Boston is traveling West - accompanying the stagecoach that carries fifty thousand dollars of his money, with which he intends to make a business investment.

In a campaign speech in Casper, Governor Carson, up for reelection, promises that he will extend the railroad from Casper, across the state of Wyoming.

Jim Hardie accompanies Vincent Dodd, who is carrying a packet of jewelry that Wells Fargo has insured for $30,000.00 on a stagecoach ride to Wichita where Dodd is to deliver them.

Ken Gibbons is slated to hang in three days for the holdup of a Wells Fargo Stage, and killing, which Jim Hardie knows, but can't prove, Gibbons didn't commit.

Jim Hardie, Clay Arvin, a local Wells Fargo man, and a posse capture Apache renegade-murderer, Joe Black.

In the town of Morgan, Louise St. John is shot and killed by a sniper as she descends from a coach at the Wells Fargo depot.

En route to Tucson, the Wells Fargo stage, with driver Tom Olsen, guard Jack Harris, and a passenger aboard, is attacked and stopped by Notch and Big Duggin.

Jess Brown, Wells Fargo agent and newly elected mayor of River Oaks, is shot and killed, following an impromptu election victory speech.