An arch-criminal has been run out of New Orleans and is passing through North Fork. Spotting the McCain ranch, he tells McCain he wants to buy it.
When Mark tries to play Cupid between Lucas and a stranger who arrives in North Fork, the girl's older brothers accuse him of trifling with her affections and challenge him to fight.
A new bank opens and Banker Hamilton hires a slow-witted gunman to guard the safe. When some of the gunman's old outlaw friends arrive in town they propose he join them in robbing the bank.
A vengeful judge who believes Lucas was responsible for his son's death, kidnaps Mark McCain to revenge himself on Lucas.
Johnny Gibbs, Lucas McCain's brother-in-law, visits the McCain ranch. Gibbs, a rodeo rider wanted by the law, begins stirring up trouble.
The notorious Shelton rides into the town of North Fork to take revenge on an elderly Marshal who is now crippled and working for Lucas McCain.
When Mark gets caught on a mountain ledge, a young outlaw risks his life to rescue him and breaks his leg doing so.
Cattle baron Oat Jackford orders his two cowboys to run Lucas McCain and his son off their ranch.
A Chinese man and his son fight prejudice as they try to open a laundry in North Fork.
Lucas recognizes Dr. Battle as an ex-gunslinger with whom he once fought. He helps with a dying man, but Lucas and the doctor have unresolved anger.
Two pranksters write away for a mail-order bride, using Lucas's name.
Lucas thinks he has seen a ghost when a young man, eerily similar to a man he killed in the Civil War, challenges him to a gunfight.
A deathbed request from an old friend sends Lucas to a neighboring town in search of the man's sweetheart.
Lucas and Marshall Torrance run into trouble while transporting a captured killer back to face trial.
Lucas unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.
A lively old lady arrives in town hot on the trail of a notorious bandit and the reward money for capturing him.
Lucas and Mark try to persuade a persecuted young mute to return stolen money.
Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.
Lucas and Mark attempt to reform a con-man.
The widow of a bandit killed by Lucas plots a grotesque revenge.