USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ben Johnson as Travis Blue, an itinerant horse trader who becomes the wagon master for the Mormon wagon train. Johnson was a member of the Ford stock company; he was a noted horseman whose skill is featured when he gallops away from a band of Navajo. Harry Carey Jr. as Sandy Owens, Travis’ partner.

Detailed explanation-2: -A wagon master was the person hired to oversee the transportation of a group of wagons. On the American frontier, the term usually applies to the person responsible for assisting groups of immigrants or pioneers from the eastern US to the western US. Wagon masters were also hired to oversee shipments of cargo or mail.

Detailed explanation-3: -John McIntire, the character actor who portrayed the stolid, laconic wagonmaster in the hit television series “Wagon Train” in the early 1960’s, died on Wednesday at St. Luke’s Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. He was 83 years old and had a home in Laguna Beach, Calif., and a cattle ranch in northern Montana.

Detailed explanation-4: -: a person in charge of one or more wagons.

Detailed explanation-5: -In its eight-year run, the “Wagon Train” had only two wagonmasters. When Ward Bond died in 1960, Major Seth Adams was replaced by John McIntire as Chris Hale. Horton quit the next year and Robert Fuller as Cooper Smith joined the cast.