From Bret and Bart's hometown of Little Bend, Texas to Bret's retirement years in Sweetwater, Arizona Territory, the Maverick Saga reaches well beyond the individual stories depicted on episodic television. Along with the incidental back stories, spin-offs, tie-ins, licensed fiction, and inferred references, there is a much grander mythos set against the real history of the American West.

 

As each story is studied and pieced together with the others, we follow the Mavericks across the western frontier, and beyond. Through them, we experience historic events, great and small, fictional and factual. We travel with them to far-flung locales, real and imagined. In this exploration, Maverick as "the Legend of the West" truly emerges. The stories are examined to uncover their place in the Saga's fictional, historical and geographical context. For Maverick aficionados, the results are sometimes amusing, often surprising, and always entertaining.

 

Explore Maverick Trails in production order, chronological order, or as the Mavericks themselves would... wherever the game may lead.

THE APOCRYPHAL MAVERICK

Maverick stories and other materials licensed by Warner Brothers to third parties are considered by Maverick Trails as important but possibly errant chronicles within the history of the Maverick Saga.

 

MOVIES

 

ALIAS JESSE JAMES

Released March 20, 1959

02. Hope Enterprises

 

THE GAMBLER RETURNS:

THE LUCK OF THE DRAW

November 3, 1991

02. Kenny Rogers Productions

 

MAVERICK

Released May 20, 1994

02. Donner/Shuler-Donner Productions

 

 

BOOKS

 

POKER ACCORDING TO MAVERICK

1959, Dell Publishing Company, Inc.

 

MAVERICK

1959, Whitman Publishing Company

 

MAVERICK

1959, Golden Press

 

MAVERICK TELEVISION STORY BOOK

1960, New Town Printers Limited

01. The Stray Mavericks

02. Ghost Town Gold

03. Pinto River Swindle

04. Horsetrader

05. War of the Silver Kings

06. The Moonlight Stage

 

MAVERICK TELEVISION STORY BOOK

1961, New Town Printers Limited

01. The Big Cheat

02. The Missouri Queen Renegades

03. Beau Leaps To The Rescue

04. Gunfight Election

05. Showdown at Powder Springs

06. Rough-'N'-Tumble

 

MAVERICK ANNUAL

1961, World Distributors (Manchester) Limited

01. Bart Takes a Long Chance

02. Beau Hits the Jackpot

03. Unlucky Winners

04. The Big Raise

05. The Top-Hat Kid

06. Strictly Coincidental

07. Gunfight at Rocky Run

08. Trick of the Horsetrade

 

MAVERICK TELEVISION STORY BOOK

1962, New Town Printers Limited

01. Apache Gold

02. The Triangle Trail

03. Full House at Gregory Gulch

04. Tortilla Tycoon

05. The Uninvited

06. The Loan

 

YOUNG MAVERICK ANNUAL

1979, Grandreams Ltd.

01. Find the Lady

02. Moonshine

03. Chase the Ace

04. Gatling's Gun

05. A Day at the Races

 

MAVERICK ANNUAL

1981, Grandreams Ltd.

01. Miss Fortune's Losing Hand

02. Out of the Past

03. Sucker Play

04. Derwent Dexter's Dirty Deeds

 

 

COMIC BOOKS

 

MAVERICK

April 1958 – April 1962, Dell Publishing Company, Inc.

01. War of the Silver Kings

02. Pinto River Swindle

02. Relic of Fort Tejon

02. Thousand Dollar Trouble

03. Stage West

02. Irish Luck

04. Trail West to Fury

02. The Pony Auction

05. The Lonesome Reunion

02. Maverick and the Reluctant Groom

06. Gunfight Election

02. The Loan

02. The Sporting Bandit

07. The Missouri Queen Renegades

02. Rough-'N'-Tumble

08. Ghost Town Gold

02. Horsetrader

02. Cold Ammunition

19. The Moonlight Stage

02. The Stray Mavericks

02. The Big Pay Off

10. The Day 'Noose" Johnson Surrendered

02. Old Man Trouble

02. Wanted

11. The Richest Man in Nevada

02. A Bag of Tricks

02. It's a Draw

12. The Guitar

02. Thunder River Journey

02. Slick Trick

02. Lady Luck

13. Strange Inheritance

02. Blue-Blood Wager

14. A Banner Day

02. Trouble in Tucson

15. Unlucky Winners

02. Strictly Coincidental

02. Trick of the Horsetrade

16. Run, Thief, Run

02. Train to Trouble

17. Gun Guards for Gold

02. Reluctant Heroes

02. Bart's Generosity

18. The Diamond Mine

02. A Capital Idea

02. The Magic Liquid

19. The Triangle Trail

02. The Uninvited

THE MAVERICK CANON

All of the Maverick stories produced for television by Warner Brothers are accepted by Maverick Trails as genuine and factual within the history of the Maverick Saga.

 

TELEVISION

 

MAVERICK: Season 1

September 22, 1957 – April 13, 195802.

02. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

01. War of the Silver Kings

02. Point Blank

03. According to Hoyle

04. Ghost Rider

05. The Long Hunt

06. Stage West

07. Relic of Fort Tejon

08. Hostage

09. Stampede

10. The Jeweled Gun

11. The Wrecker

12. The Quick and the Dead

13. Naked Gallows

14. Comstock Conspiracy

15. The Third Rider

16. A Rage for Vengeance

17. Rope of Cards

18.Diamond in the Rough

19. Day of Reckoning

20. The Savage Hills

21. Trail West to Fury

22. The Burning Sky

23. The Seventh Hand

24. Plunder of Paradise

25. Black Fire

26. Burial Ground of the Gods

27. Seed of Deception

 

MAVERICK: Season 2

September 21, 1958 – March 29, 1959

02. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

01. The Day They Hanged Bret Maverick

02. Lonesome Reunion

03. Alias Bart Maverick

04. The Belcastle Brand

05. High Card Hangs

06. Escape to Tampico

07. The Judas Mask

08. The Jail at Junction Flats

09. The Thirty-Ninth Star

10. Shady Deal at Sunny Acres

11. Island in the Swamp

12. Prey of the Cat

13. The Spanish Dancer

14. Holiday at Hollow Rock

15. Game of Chance

16. Gun-Shy

17. Two Beggars on Horseback

18. The Rivals

19. Duel at Sundown

20. Yellow River

21. The Saga of Waco Williams

22. Brasada Spur

23. Passage to Fort Doom

24. Two Tickets to Ten Strike

25. Betrayal

26. The Strange Journey of Jenny Hill

 

MAVERICK: Season 3

September 13, 1959 – March 13, 1960

02. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

01. Pappy

02. Royal Four-Flush

03. The Sheriff of Duck 'N' Shoot

04. You Can't Beat the Percentage

05. The Cats of Paradise

06. A Tale of Three Cities

07. Full House

08. The Lass with the Poisonous Air

09. The Ghost Soldiers

10. Easy Mark

11. A Fellow's Brother

12. Trooper Maverick

13. Maverick Springs

14. The Goose Drownder

15. A Cure for Johnny Rain

16. The Marquesa

17. The Cruise of the Cynthia B

18. Maverick and Juliet

19. The White Widow

20. Guatemala City

21. The People's Friend

22. A Flock of Trouble

23. The Iron Hand

24. The Resurrection of Joe November

25. The Misfortune Teller

26. Greenbacks, Unlimited

 

MAVERICK: Season 4

September 18, 1960 – April 23, 1961

02. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

01. The Bundle from Britain

02. Hadley's Hunters

03. The Town that Wasn't There

04. Arizona Black Maria

05. Last Wire from Stop Gap

06. Mano Nera

07. A Bullet for the Teacher

08. The Witch of Hound Dog

09. Thunder from the North

10. The Maverick Line

11. Bolt from the Blue

12. Kiz

13. Dodge City or Bust

14. The Bold Fenian Men

15. Destination: Devil's Flat

16. A State of Siege

17. Family Pride

18. The Cactus Switch

19. Dutchman's Gold

20. The Ice Man

21. Diamond Flush

22. Last Stop: Oblivion

23. Flood's Folly

24. Maverick At Law

25. Red Dog

26. The Deadly Image

27. Triple Indemnity

28. The Forbidden City

29. Substitute Gun

30. Benefit of Doubt

31. The Devil's Necklace, Part 1

32. The Devil's Necklace, Part 2

 

MAVERICK: Season 5

September 17, 1961 – April 22, 1962

02. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

01. Dade City Dodge

02. The Art Lovers

03. The Golden Fleecing

04. Three Queens Full

05. A Technical Error

06. Poker Face

07. Epitaph for a Gambler

08. The Maverick Report

09. Marshal Maverick

10. The Troubled Heir

11. The Money Machine

12. Mr. Muldoon's Partner

13. One of Our Trains is Missing

 

ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE

September 3, 1978

02. Warner Bros. Television

01. The New Maverick

 

YOUNG MAVERICK

November 28, 1979 – January 30, 1980

02. Warner Bros. Television

01. Clancy

02. A Fistful of Oats

03. Hearts o' Gold

04. Dead Man's Hand

05. Makin' Tracks

06. Have I Got a Girl For You

07. Half-Past Noon

08. Silver Threads Among the Gold

09. The Great Beef Bonanza

10. Double-Trouble in Texas

11. The Belles of Vinegar Wells

12. Big Deal in Deadwood

 

BRET MAVERICK

December 1, 1981 – May 4, 1982

02. Warner Bros. Television

01. The Lazy Ace

02. Welcome to Sweetwater

03. Anything for a Friend

04. The Yellow Rose

05. Horse of Yet Another Color

06. Dateline: Sweetwater

07. The Mayflower Women's Historical Society

08. Hallie

09. The Ballad of Bret Maverick

10. A Night at the Red Ox

11. The Not So Magnificent Six

12. The Vulture Also Rises

13. The Eight Swords of the Dyrus

      and Other Illusions of Grandeur

14. Faith, Hope and Clarity, Part 1

15. Faith, Hope and Clarity, Part 2

16. The Rattlesnake Brigade

17. The Hidalgo Thing

18. Sheriff Who?

19. Dead Ringer

20. The Sensibaugh Gang

21. Fait Game

22. Our Man in Sweetwater