Initially resistant to becoming a lawman, Wyatt Earp has a change of heart after seeing the sheriff of Ellsworth, Kansas murdered in cold blood by the inebriated brother of town scourge Ben Thompson.
Hardie negotiates with a violent Pawnee tribe so that a section of railroad in the Dakota Black Hills can be completed.
After Joe kills a man in self-defense who tried to set fire to the Ponderosa to clear himself some land, he has to take his lively, feisty, wild daughter home, and she and her relatives are now determined to kill Joe.
Outlaws force Dr. Alice MacCauley to treat their wounded leader.
A Wells Fargo employee has been killed and Hardie investigates a potential suspect.