Payroll of the Dead

Bronco is paddling a canoe when two Sioux braves attack him from shore. He kills one but the second one waits for Bronco to surface after jumping in the river. As he resurfaces he hears a shot as the brave falls dead. A civilian on horseback has rescued Bronco. The man says he is a Major in the Army under special orders to retrieve a $25,000 payroll taken by Sitting Bull and the Sioux during a raid. His guide abandoned him so he asks Bronco to take over as his guide.

Bronco, who had been trapping but lost his furs and is in need of supplies, eventually agrees to join the Major in his quest to meet Sitting Bull even though he questions the Major's experience and knowledge of the Indians. Soon an Army private, who is lost after his group was attacked while on an errand, stumbles into the camp ...

Bronco has definitely has bitten more than he can chew, not just from Sitting Bull, but from the money hungry private and the major who is duplicitous as they come.

John Dehner's plan is high on ambitious - his real reason to meeting sitting Bull. Of course, Bronco is suspicious of him from the beginning even if Dehner saved his life. Nice adventurous episode, maybe Dehner's plans to acquire a stash is farfetched as well as suicidal.