This game is based on the TV show of the same name that was on from 1957 through 1965. It starred Ward Bond as Major Seth Adams and Robert Horton as Scout Flint McCullough. Bond died of a heart attack in 1960 and was replaced by John McIntire who played Christopher Hale Wagon Train followed the trials and tribulations of pioneering families as they set out from the East to carve out a new life in the West soon after the American Civil War. For some of the travelers it was a happy ending, but not for all, which only heightened the drama along the way. The game itself is a simple roll and move game as you try to guide your Wagon Train safely to California. Indian Attacks along the way make the trip difficult.