When you have a title role with the name Beauty Jamison assigned to it, you'd better cast a beauty. So the producers at Wagon Train got the very beautiful Virginia Mayo for the part.
Mayo owns a Ponderosa type spread that she inherited from her tough dad who built the outfit. The Wagon Train had a right of way passage every year that Ward Bond negotiated. 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. Including Russell Johnson who is playing a soft spoken professorial like role as a ranch owner who once had a thing for Mayo. That is before the Civil War and he lost an arm.
Mayo is not Victoria Barkley as Jamison. 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.
With the accent on Horton carrying this episode, The Beauty Jamison Story works very nicely as the pioneers continue west.
Mayo owns a Ponderosa type spread that she inherited from her tough dad who built the outfit. The Wagon Train had a right of way passage every year that Ward Bond negotiated. 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. Including Russell Johnson who is playing a soft spoken professorial like role as a ranch owner who once had a thing for Mayo. That is before the Civil War and he lost an arm.
Mayo is not Victoria Barkley as Jamison. 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.
With the accent on Horton carrying this episode, The Beauty Jamison Story works very nicely as the pioneers continue west.
