Wagon Train

Season 8, Episode 21

Episode Title: The Captain Sam Story

Air Date: 1965-03-21

Overview:

Tough and headstrong female ferryboat captain Samantha Stewart is asked by her son Johnny and his bride to accompany them on the wagon train to California, where they will board a ship for a Pacific voyage. But actually, Johnny is not telling his proud mother that her doctor has told him that she must stay with a dry climate on land or she will die.