"The Colter Craven Story" is the November 23, 1960 black-and-white episode of the American television western series, Wagon Train, which had an eight-season run from 1957 to 1965. Presented as the 9th
Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, Jr. and Ward Bond in John Ford's Wagon Master (1950), one of the primary cinematic inspirations for the Wagon Train series. John Ford dressed Ward Bond identically to this, with the black hat and checkered shirt, in the Wagon Train episode that Ford later directed titled "The Colter Craven Story" featuring many regulars from Ford films as well as some stock footage from Wagon Master.