Fifty Days to Moose Jaw The Virginian : Season 1 Episode 12
TV-PG NBC 1h 15m int(0)
Aired: December 12th, 1962 @ 12:00 AM EST on NBC
Older cowhand Slim Jessup (James Gregory) is accussed of killing a man in Idaho and escapes east. He signs on with a Shiloh Ranch cattle drive to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. On the way the drovers are joined by a young man, James Cafferty (Bandon de Wilde), who wishes a different life than dirt farming with his widowed step-father (Frank Overton). The older Slim takes James under his wing and teaches him lessons in life before his past catches up with him.