Rawhide Flashback: The Lost Tribe Season 4 Episode 5 1961

Rawhide Flashback: The Lost Tribe Season 4 Episode 5 1961

I have to admit, I constructed this post based purely around a couple of great photos sent to me by our longtime friend, Jayne Smart. The 2 shots feature this striking beauty from the past, Sonya Wilde. Wilde appeared in the episode, The Lost Tribe, back in 1961. 

Sonya Wilde (born November 2, 1937) is an American former actress, best known for her starring role in the 1960 film I Passed for White. She started her career as Maria on Broadway with the original cast of West Side Story. On Broadway, Wilde was an understudy and replacement in the role of Maria in West Side Story (1957).

The Lost Tribe:

Indians stampede the herd and make off with 30 steers, so Rowdy, Pete, Quince and Hey Soos follow in pursuit. The Indians had been dissatisfied with their hot, dry, dusty reservation up North, so they are trying to cross the Rio Grande into Mexico to find more hospitable land, land it so happens Pete had told them about when he had been married to the Chief's daughter and was living with the Indians. Lawmen are also trying to force the Indians to return to the reservation. Pete has to convince Rowdy, Quince and Hey Soos (who have been captured by the Indians) that the Indians have been wronged and are peaceful, they must also defeat an upstart bellicose Indian brave intent on taking over and killing the drovers, and convince the Chief to return most of the steers and safely cross the Rio Grande.

Whilst Wilde was certainly pretty on the eye, her career was relatively short. She made her mark alongside a young James Franciscus in the film I Passed for White (1960). But from there on it was mainly TV westerns such as Bonanza (1960), Cheyenne (1960), The Americans (1961), Gunslinger (1961), Perry Mason (1961) and another show in which Clint made an early appearance, Death Valley Days (1960). 

Our kind thanks to Jayne Smart