The Sagebrush Trail: Recent Episodes

Mardell Shares Stories

Saddle up partner and head west for two-fisted adventure from the Pecos to the Yukon. Stories by Owen Wister, Zane Grey, Harold Bindloss, Jack London, Rex Beach, Max Brand, Ernest Haycox and more.

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Chapter 4  Deception Pass Venters vows to find out where Oldring drives the herd but Janie fears for his saftety Source

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Chapter 4  Deception Pass

Venters vows to find out where Oldring drives the herd but Janie fears for his saftety

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Chapter 3  Amber Springs

Venters has a talk with Lassiter about the rustlers and tells him all he knows about Millie Earne

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Chapter 3  Amber Springs Venters has a talk with Lassiter about the rustlers and tells him all he knows about Millie Earne Source

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Chapter 2  Cottonwoods

After Lassiter saves Venters Janie asks them both to stay to supper, and learns that Lassiter is searching for the grave of Millie Erne

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Chapter 2  Cottonwoods After Lassiter saves Venters Janie asks them both to stay to supper, and learns that Lassiter is searching for the grave of Millie Erne Source

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Chapter 1 Lassiter

Mormon Elders in a Southern Utah community resent their Gentile neighbor

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Chapter 1 Lassiter Mormon Elders in a Southern Utah community resent their Gentile neighbor Source

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Into the Settlements

We reach the promised land at last. California!

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Into the Settlements We reach the promised land at last. California!   Source

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Night Travel The trail gets rough when they must cross forty miles of desert   Source

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Night Travel

The trail gets rough when they must cross forty miles of desert

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Sagebrush Justice

They meet with Tooley again and Frontier Justice is applied

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Sagebrush Justice They meet with Tooley again and Frontier Justice is applied Source

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Challenge to Battle The party is threatened by a gun waving bully Source

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Challenge to Battle

The party is threatened by a gun waving bully

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Mysterious Visitors Suspicious characters who claim to be mountain men, try to join up with the party Source

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Mysterious Visitors

Suspicious characters who claim to be mountain men, try to join up with the party

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Disaster Overtakes the Wood Family

Another deadly Indian attack 

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Disaster Overtakes the Wood Family Another deadly Indian attack  Source

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Tangled by a Tornado

A storm causes the livestock to stampede

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Origin of “Piker”

The daily routine of a wagon train

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The Holloway Massacre

Indian attack!

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Disquieting Rumors of Red Men

After news of Indian unrest, we join up with another train for strength in numbers

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Lost in the Black Hills

A wrong turn leads to a seemingly impassible barrier

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Laramie Fashions and Sioux Etiquette

Our first buffalo hunt

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Forsaking the Old in Quest of the New

The wagon train heads West

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His Appointed Station

Ingleby and Ledger are cleared of murder charges, but must relinquish their claims and leave the territory for good

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Broken Idols

Grace takes a hand in the negotiations

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Sewell's Downfall

Hetty's sudden illness makes Ingleby rethink his attitude toward her and Sewell confesses his fears to Grace

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Esmond's Hands Are Tied

Ingleby visits the Major to make things plain and wins Grace's approbation

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Snowed In

The men brave the ice and snow to rescue Tomlinson

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The Blockade

Ledger begins to see through Sewell, and frustrated miners block the entrance to the valley

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The Obvious Thing

Hetty refuses to give Esmond any information about Tomlinson

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Tomlinson Gets Away

Sewell convinces Grace that Ingleby prefers Hetty

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The Unexpected Happens

Hetty tries to cover for the returning Tomlinson

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Ingleby Loses His head

Ingleby has hopes again when he receives encouragement from Grace

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Alison's Sault

Grace finds herself lost on the trail and Ingleby comes to her rescue

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A Doubtful Exchange

Ingleby works Tomlinson's mine, but gets no joy of it

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Accessories

Tomlinson decides to flee

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Trooper Probyn Comes Back

Trooper Probyn is at last found

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Ingleby Goes Away

Ingleby reluctantly accepts an offer from Tomlinson to help him work his claim

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Trooper Probyn's Misadventure

Hetty has an admirer

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An Invalid Record

Esmond presses Coulthurst to hold Ingleby's claim invalid on a technicality

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Ingleby Strikes it Rich

Ingleby hits paydirt at last

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The Necessary Incentive

Ingleby learns that Sewell is attempting to win Grace's affections and Esmond learns his chances with her are slim

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Esmond Requires Information

Ingleby and Seward entertain a convalescing Major Coulthurst with chess and are taken with the charms of Grace

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The Major's Bear

Ingleby and Sewell rescue Major Coulthurst

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Ingleby Ventures a Remonstrance

Ingleby goes head to head with Esmond

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Unrest

The miners, headed by Sewell take their grievances to the head office of the Mounties where they are met with no sympathy

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Hetty Finds a Way

With supplies running dangerously low, Ingleby fears he will have to give up his claim

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Ingleby, Ledger and Hetty make the long arduous trek to the diggings

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Loading freight, Ingleby is astonished to see Grace and learn she and her father are headed to the Yukon

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Ingleby and Ledger find work in Vancouver City and hear a rousing new socialist speaker in the park

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Grace shocks her father and Mrs. Esmond by refusing Geoffrey. During the train ride across Canada, Hetty proves homesick.

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Ingleby and Ledger decide they must flee the country and Hetty declares she must go with them

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Major Colthurst is offered a government post in Canada, Grace has a wealthy suitor in Esmond and the protest suddenly turns violent

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Ingleby agrees to accompany his friend Ledger to protest the enclosure of the lake, but the unexpected threat of violence unsettles him

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Young Ingleby chafes at his inability to rise, under the current class system in England

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After a glorious honeymoon in the wild, Molly and the Virginian head back east to visit her family

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The final showdown

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The Virginian makes wedding plans

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Molly must come to terms with Western justice

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The Virginian is haunted by the death of his old friend Steve

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The Virginian and our narrator are anxious to move on

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Arriving early to join up with the Virginian, our narrator finds he has stumbled upon a situation where he is unwelcome

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The Virginian undertakes the task of writing to Molly’s mother

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Molly Gives in at Last

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Mrs. Taylor loses her patience with Molly and tells her a few home truths

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After pressure from Balaam, Shorty makes a poor deal and reluctantly parts with his pony Pedro

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The Virginian decides to write a letter to Molly

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The Virginian tries to spoil Trampas' game and save Shorty from error

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The Virginian gains points with Molly

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The Virginian goes the Parson one better

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The Virginian finds his faithful service rewarded by the Judge

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The Parson makes his insufferable presence felt by one and all

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A traveling preacher shows up at the ranch and settles in for a long stay, to the dismay of the Judge, his wife and their visitors

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Scipio points out to our narrator the errors in his thinking

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The Virginian must contrive to hold his men and get them back to the Judge’s ranch

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News of a gold strike has the men, encouraged by Trampas, threatening to revolt

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The Virginian rounds up his men and makes a new hire

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Our narrator catches up with the Virginian and hears his surprising views on Shakespeare

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The Virginian ponders the constructs of society

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The Virginian claims Molly for his own, but she remains unconvinced

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The Virginian defends a lady’s honor and gets up to mischief with Steve

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The Virginian rescues the new Schoolmarm

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Molly Stark refuses an offer of marriage from an eligible suitor and decides to try and make a new life for herself out West

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The Judge’s cattle begin to fall prey to rustlers

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Em’ly the hen proves she is a personality like none other

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The citizens of Bear Creek must decide which candidate will be the new schoolteacher

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Traveling to the Judge’s Ranch, our narrator learns with astonishment about the great distances in the West.

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It's an all-night party, thanks to Steve losing the bet and now they're joyfully whooping it up in Medicine Bow.

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The Virginian takes a hand at poker and our visitor learns some Western customs

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A dude from the East newly arrived on the train at Medicine Bow, Wyoming, finds the culture primitive but exciting