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In this discrimination episode, we have a wagon train of Mormons that approach a city and is stopped by some of the leaders. The town has got word that the wagon train has cholera and refuses to let the wagon train enter the city.

The Mormons advise that they do not have any disease and request that the town's doctor come and and check on them. When the doctor arrives he has already got with the town's leader, Matt Rowland, and whatever he finds- the doctor will claim there is cholera with the Mormons.

But there is one person in the crowd, Todd Rowland the son of Matt, that believes that the town is acting in haste. And when his father orders the crowd to start shooting the Mormons, it will be Todd that questions the actions of his father.

This is a routine story that is a feature in nearly all westerns. The episode was fairly done and the acting was top-notched. The only problem that the show was that it ended rather abruptly which felt like part of the story was missing. Would have been nice to see the results of actions that were taken by Todd - but it was not to be.

In their trek west and even after they made their own Zion in what is now Utah Mormons were a persecuted group. The whole polygamy thing which is carefully avoided in this story. Stephen McNally owns the local Ponderosa and he ain't having no Mormons settling in and around where he has his roots.

On a pretext of cholera on the Mormon wagon train he tells Michael Hinn to take his people back where they came from.

McNally's son Mark Goddard doesn't believe him, but by that time he's seen Mormon maid Tuesday Weld doing her wash in the stream that separates the two opposing parties.

Need I say more other than it does turn out a bit better for those original star crossed lovers Romeo And Juliet.