Tales of Wells Fargo - Season 3

While Jim Hardie is in a town a Choctaw boy shows up with a note from Wells Fargo talking about a boy being ship to his parents from his grandmother. Hardie has to determine if the boy is the boy in the note and where his parents are.

When butch Cassidy is released from prison, Jim Hardie, who sent him to prison, is tasked with asking him to work for Wells Fargo. While on a train, Butch meets an outlaw friend, Idaho, who with others are planning to rob the train.

Hardie arrives in Medicine River to help set up a new office. He is greeted at the office by an employee who is the son of a Cheyenne chief he knew when the boy was young but the locals are unhappy he is to be the driver on the route.

Jim Hardie's task of catching the Manning Brothers is interrupted when his attempt to help a stranded man backfires. The man, John Leslie Nagel, has a $25,000 bounty on him so he trusts no one including Hardie who has no interest in him.

Jim Hardie is sent by Wells Fargo to Comanche, Texas to find the Rucker brothers who are hanging around there. Unknown to Hardie, John Wesley Hardin is there, a cousin to the Rucker brothers and still holding a grudge against Hardie.

Hardie is sent to confer with the Colonel at Fort Chaplin which is closing now that a peace treaty has been signed. Wells Fargo is concerned about a rash of robberies in the area by a gang led by an ex-Army officer who deserted the Army.

Jim Hardie is accompanying a stagecoach carrying a Senator. He has angered the large ranchers in the area with his plan to turn over untitled land to settlers. Three ranchers have hired a gunman to kill the Senator to protect their land.

Wells Fargo is threaten with bankruptcy if they don't find the source of counterfeit Bills of Exchange used to move money. The one man they have caught with them refuses to talk to Hardie forcing him to find the source of them by himself.

Hardie runs into a whole family of outlaws—a father, three sons and a daughter. 

Jim Hardie stumbles on to a man and his daughter shot in the head. The dead man was holding a wanted poster for the Rawhide Kid who was wanted 20 years earlier. He finds a young man who was grazed who Hardie decides to use as a lure.

Hardie has his hands full with an escaped criminal Buff, Sheriff Huckaby considered a coward and a new road house manager who's a former drinker. Also a driver intent on setting a record plus a fancy lady with a tart tongue.

Jim Hardie tries to help pretty Pearl Watkins with her brother Ira who is becoming an outlaw but is not wanted by Wells Fargo. His attempt fails but it is not long before he and the Bill Tobey gang hit a Wells Fargo bank leaving two dead.

Jim Hardie stops by a relay station that has reported a theft of several horses. He is met at the door by a pretty young woman who unknowingly is at the center of the theft as a man vies for her hand versus the man he frames for the theft.

Jim Hardie is sent to accompany a delayed and large payroll for a mine at Daleyville. Complicating things there is an employee who feels under appreciated by Wells Fargo but he has become a drunk trying to live up to his one claim on fame.

Jim Hardie makes a visit to his parolee Bob Dawson. While there someone tries to rob the Wells Fargo office killing a sleeping man. The technique used is a copy of one Dawson used 27 years earlier so the Marshal wants to lock up Dawson.

A tip sends Jim Hardie to Wagner, Montana on the outlook for outlaws. At the hotel he runs into Laurie Hammer who ran away from home with the outlaw Will Carver. He tells her he recently saw her parents and they would like her to return.

Jim Hardie at a stop finds a stagecoach holdup netted $50,000 in crisp new bills and Doc Holliday and his wife Amy are there. When Amy receives some of the bills from Doc she accuses him of staging the robbery but Jim is doubtful.

Jim Hardie is sent after Kid Curry who has his Wells Fargo at Blue Cross, Wyoming. Hardie is able to catch him near Knoxville, Tennessee after he has been shot. However, Kid Curry tells Jim he won't be taken alive the next time by anyone.

Jim Hardie is in Clay City when the stage comes in driven by two passengers with the driver and shotgun dead and the cash stolen. They say two men held it up but Hardie suspects the two passengers but one of them would seem incapable.

Jim Hardie has been sent to capture the Dalton brothers by Wells Fargo after they strike several express shipments. Jim having worked with Bob goes to their mother's house to find them. However, when the boys show up, he is captured.

Hardie is sent in to investigate a railroad holdup with cash stolen and two railroad men wounded. With a big reward for the remaining outlaw, a bounty hunter named Briscoe is on the trail and he will do anything to eliminate competition.