Wagon Train

Series Similar to Wagon Train

If you enjoyed Wagon Train, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Cheyenne

   1955 · Action, Adventure, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8), also on ABC.

   Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero.

2. Bonanza

   1959 · Drama, Action, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile.

   Bonanza chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright. He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect Adam Cartwright who built the ranch house; the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric "Hoss" Cartwright; and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or "Little Joe". The family's cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing.

3. Broken Trail

   2006 · Drama, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, hidden gem.

   Veteran cowboy Print Ritter and his estranged nephew Tom Harte must run 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming. When they cross paths with a low-life trafficker and five innocent Chinese girls, a twist of fate makes the girls Print and Tom's responsibility.

4. Lonesome Dove

   1989 · Drama, Adventure, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8).

   Retired Texas Rangers Gus McRae and Woodrow Call are content to live out their remaining years in the tiny Texas town of Lonesome Dove. Then their old friend Jake comes to town, and tells them about the incredible opportunities for cattle ranching in Montana. Encouraged by this, Call convinces Gus and many other townspeople to go on a perilous cattle drive to Montana. Gus has another agenda though: his former sweetheart now lives in Nebraska, and he hopes for a second chance with her. As the drive goes on it takes on an epic scale, ultimately becoming what could well be called the central event in the lives of all involved.

5. Rawhide

   1959 · Action, Adventure, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8).

   Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive; he is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way.

6. How the West Was Won

   1977 · Drama, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on ABC.

   Family Macahan's is the story of the white man's conquest of the American West, which we follow through family Macahan valiant struggle for survival. It is the story of mountain men who went west to explore the world beyond the next river bend, the fur trappers who nearly extinct buffalo herds, the gold graves searching for El Dorado, about peasants who became wealthy landowners and the simple people who were on the run. There is also a story about the American Indians. Brave and fearless, but hopelessly outnumbered, these primitive people were the ultimate losers in the battle for land in the west.

7. Little House on the Prairie

   1974 · Drama, Family, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile.

   The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the 19th century American West.

8. Godless

   2017 · Drama, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8).

   A ruthless outlaw terrorizes the West in search of a former member of his gang, who's found a new life in a quiet town populated only by women.

9. Gunsmoke

   1955 · Action, Adventure, Western · ended

   Recommended for similar Western profile.

   Marshall Matt Dillon is responsible for keeping the law and respectability in Dodge City in this western action-drama. Gunsmoke captured the courage, character and spirit of the Western Frontier.

10. 1883

    2021 · Drama, Adventure, Western · ended

    Recommended for similar Western profile, highly rated (8.8).

    1883 follows the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. It is a stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America's promised land - Montana.