A widely loathed former officer for the Confederate Army moves to Medicine Bow with the intention of settling a debt with Judge Garth, who sent him to prison.
Slim finds a severely injured young woman, and finds out that two men have kidnapped her, when they are caught by her rancher father and his hired hands.
A free school for Ponderosa employees and tenant farmers has opened, but the murder of the schoolmaster brings a confession from a troubled teenage boy.
The family is shocked when a stranger arrives at the ranch and claims to be Heath's long-lost father, so Heath decides to investigate the man's claims.
A man knows information that could stop him from being wrongly hanged for murder, but the true killer has threatened to kill his wife the evidence is revealed.
Although her dying father arranged for her to marry a man, Lou does not want to and looks for a way out when that man comes into the town of North Fork.
When a British archaeologist turns to a gang of outlaws for help digging up hidden Aztec treasure, Flint is kidnapped and forced to serve as their guide.
A doctor saves a young mans life after a wagon accident, which sets off a chain of events that pits Slim, Daisy and Mike against an angry and vengeful father.
A U.S. Marshal is grateful for a man's help when he is attacked by a prisoner, but problems ensue when he learns that the man is wanted by a reservation.
A scout with a map for a lost gold mine convinces Charlie to help him find the fortune, but three men overhear them and come up with a plan of their own.
Trampas falls in love with the daughter of a peace-loving man of faith, but defies her father's nonviolent approach by encouraging the townsmen to bear arms.
Lucas' former Army captain visits him at North Fork because he is now an undercover federal agent and needs Lucas' help to get access to a band of bank robbers.
Slim is in Cody where he meets a bar maid and her father, who ask Slim for him in guiding them to Helene, Montana; the father wants to return money he stole.