Buffy & Jody enter a cereal contest, hoping to win a boat. But their prize is a lamb. When it arrives at the apartment, they do not understand why a lamb cannot live in an apartment.
More than a few tears are shed as Mike and Sally get married and move out of state and Ernie finds out his foster parents have to leave the country.
Glory, a saloon girl, has been banished from town for murder without trial. Yuma offers to help her but while in town he runs afoul of Emma Longdon who has falsely accused Glory to keep her from her brother Don.
Jed and Granny throw a "comin' out" party for Elly, and Mrs. Drysdale plans to make the affair a fiasco.
After a treaty with the Apaches, Fort Chapman is targeted for closure, but in the meantime, Jim Hardie must keep the peace until civilian law can fill the void.