After a sheriff's deputy provokes him into a fight, Cheyenne learns that the corrupt lawman had been illegally profiting by selling the labor of his prisoners.
Daniel and Yadkin hire four manacled prisoners to drive several wagonloads of supplies across the dangerous, bandit-infested Cumberland Gap to Boonesborough.
While counting cattle on the range, Heath is injured by a gang of rawhiders who take him back to the ranch in hopes of receiving a ransom for finding him.
After a schoolmaster kills the leader of a gang of outlaws, Cheyenne takes on the task of protecting the teacher from fallen criminal's three brothers.
Mark decided that he would like to work and has taken a job as a stable-boy, but Lucas cannot understand why he would do that, so he sets out to find out why.
A fugitive decides to travel with a runaway in order to help them both avoid suspicion, and he causes trouble when he stops in Dodge to see the woman he loves.
Joe Digger is nearly murdered by two outlaws, who tried to lynch him, so he gives Marshal Matt Dillon until midnight the following day to catch the criminals.
An influential land baron threatens to annihilate Dodge City after learning that his beloved daughter is romantically linked to the son of his archrival.
Matt helps an accused thief find a legitimate job after the thief saves his life, but the man's criminal friends want him to help them commit another robbery.
A Quaker missionary serving as a schoolteacher for American Indian children becomes involved in a vicious conflict between the Comanche and the Arapaho.
A man came to North Fork to marry the town's lonely old woman, but two brothers who want her land tried to prevent the marriage by threatening and injuring him.