



She's trying to do things as she expected dear old dad would want and it's creating all kinds of problems and the Wagon Train could become a collateral casualty. That is before the Civil War and he lost an arm. Including Russell Johnson who is playing a soft spoken professorial like role as a ranch owner who once had a thing for Mayo. When scout Robert Horton rides on ahead this year, he gets himself in the middle of a range war Mayo's having with all the other ranchers around. The Wagon Train had a right of way passage every year that Ward Bond negotiated. Mayo owns a Ponderosa type spread that she inherited from her tough dad who built the outfit. So the producers at Wagon Train got the very beautiful Virginia Mayo for the part. When you have a title role with the name Beauty Jamison assigned to it, you'd better cast a beauty.
