Jim investigates an accidental killing during a robbery.
The Cartwrights try to disprove the validity of a Spanish land grant to stop the De La Cuesta family from seizing part of the Ponderosa and all of the Carson Valley settlers' homestead lands.
After Flint happens on the body of an Indian killed by a soldier, the tribal chief threatens to attack if the guilty party does not confess.
Hardie needs to find a home for a condemned convict's belligerent son.