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.
Hardie needs to find a home for a condemned convict's belligerent son.
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.
