This same story was done a little over a year earlier on Bonanza in "The Survivors". Like Hannah (Mary Fickett) Mamyope/Alicia Purcell ,played by Mariette Hartley, was captured by Indians and thought to be dead. She, just like Hannah, is brought back to her former home, Virginia City, and reunited with her husband. In both stories the women are not immediately accepted but eventually the long lost wife, her Indian child and her husband become a family.