The former sheriff of Medicine Bow resorts to shady dealings with area thieves when his dwindling finances put his sprawling ranch at risk of foreclosure.
A former bounty hunter turned his life around and becomes a preacher, but is asked by a dying outlaw friend to cash his body in for a reward to build a church.
Ben is shocked when a friend's daughter arrives after leaving her intended at the altar, and proclaims her love for him, though he refuses to marry her.
After the family boards a train for the State Fair, Audra is stricken with appendicitis, and the only doctor on board who can help is being pursued by killers.
Slim Sherman is catching horses for the ranch when he catches one that may be ideal for Mike; the horse is stolen from the ranch, and Slim looks to retrieve it.
A new girl arrives in North Fork and does not get a warm welcome because she has all the symptoms of smallpox, causing the townspeople to prepare for the worse.
The Cannon family faces an impending Apache war after holding a wounded leader of the tribe hostage at the ranch, causing the calvary to come knocking.
Matt investigates the suspicious death of a bounty hunter, whose body was discovered along with the body of the fugitive that he has recently captured.
Slim makes a promise to a young boy that he will take him to meet the father the boy never met, but he does not realize that the father is a wanted outlaw.
Cheyenne stumbles upon an orphaned infant who is the heir of a tract of land, but a greedy man will resort to murder in order to take the child's inheritance.
Marshal Dillon and businessmen from Dodge City try to keep ambush victim Lee Prentice from facing a false murder charge and hanging sentence in Baker City.
A young woman wants to steal a plot of land, but her big scheme is complicated by the fact that she develops feelings for the man she is trying to rob.
A woman arrives in town to find her husband, dead or alive, after he is reportedly killed in a conflict with the Kiowa, but the local colonel refuses to help.
After a gang of stagecoach robbers is plagued with bad luck, they try to improve their meager fortunes in Dodge City by collaborating on a plan to steal money.
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.