Young Dan Willard takes on Marshal Micah Torrence's job. With no experience, he takes a tough stand with a bunch of Texas cowhands whose high spirits are evident at the saloon.
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.
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 handsome Italian count arrives in North Fork. The town bully ridicules his manner of speech and dress and provokes the Count to challenge him to a duel.
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.
Cattle baron Oat Jackford orders his two cowboys to run Lucas McCain and his son off their ranch.
Lucas and Mark decide to enter a local turkey shoot to raise money to buy a 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.
Lucas agrees to take a job as an undercover agent and goes to investigate rumors of the sales of arms to renegade Indians. His life is endangered by the town drunk who stumbles onto his true identity.
Lucas thinks he has seen a ghost when a man, eerily similar to a man he killed, 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 unmasks a killer posing as a door-to-door seed salesman.
A doctor seeks revenge on the man he blames for ruining his practice.
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.
A con man makes his living by provoking and then betting on gunfights.
Mark and his friend become trapped in an old mine.