When Trampas decides to leave Medicine Bow for greener pastures, he and an old comrade named Luke Milford encounter trouble and gold while making their way.
A young widow passes through North Fork while on her way to receive an inheritance, but problems arise when others wanting the inheritance try to kill her.
A U.S. Marshall is tasked with investigating the sale of stolen horses, but problems ensue when he learns more owners have reported their horses stolen.
Joe is surprised to find his ex-fiancée in Virginia City, unaware she has a habit of lying or a husband who is a deputy marshal, guarding a currency shipment.
When the leader of a gang of outlaws orders his men to kidnap a teacher so that he can learn to read and write, they mistakenly abduct Victoria instead.
Slim and Jess are tricked into painting the roof of a barn while the owner and Mike head into town; their ranch is being used to hang a convicted murderer.
An Abraham Lincoln impersonator stops by the town of North Fork and quickly gets into trouble when he becomes involved in a bar fight that turns serious.
When a convict finally manages to escape from jail, he makes his getaway by joining the wagon train, but a determined sheriff is following not too far behind.
While helping a marshal hunt down a wanted criminal, Cheyenne learns the overzealous, trigger-happy lawman has no plans to bring back the fugitive alive.
Ollie is arrested for the murder of a man who killed his hogs and mule, and after he is given a long prison sentence, his friend Jim kills him out of sympathy.
Two unscrupulous New York City writers show up in Dodge City for a story, where they discover that it is not the rip-roaring frontier town they imagined.
A woman conspires with two men to murder her husband so that she can sell his ranch and pocket the proceeds, but her son and Marshal Dillon fight back.
After Kitty becomes the caretaker of boy under mysterious circumstances, she refuses to tell Matt exactly who the boy is or why she is taking care of him.
A widowed father tries to raise his sons to be good men, but the two boys encounter trouble that could lead to murder after a local rancher wrongs both of them.
While on a scouting mission for the wagon train, Flint encounters a group of survivors from an American Indian attack and attempts to lead them to safety.
Betsy finds love with a former minister whose reluctance to display his emotions for her is diminished when he fights for safer work conditions for miners.
A jealous gang leader is determined to stop his ex-wife from getting remarried, despite the fact that the wedding is set to take place at her fathers ranch.