The Virginian Season 8 Episode 6 The Runaway

Young Hoot Callahan escapes a home for wayward boys in Colorado and heads for Wyoming looking for his father. He is discovered at Shiloh but refuses to cooperate with the Graingers. When they learn he has been severely beaten and he provides some history, they try to track down his home. The owner of the home he escaped from tracks Hoot to Shiloh and tries to force the Graingers to return him. Meanwhile The Virginian tracks down his father who is the town drunk and saloon swamper in Medicine Bow.