William R. Thompkins

A bounty hunter joins Gil Favor's drovers and each fears he may be the hunter's quarry. John Shepard, a bounty hunter posing as a drover, joins the drive and is recognized by two of the hands. Disclosure of his true occupation turns all the drovers against him and a couple of them, headed by Clay Forrester, put pressure on trail boss Gil Favor to- fire the newcomer. Gil refuses to be intimidated and becomes increasingly surly and recalcitrant until Mushy provokes a "confession" period, during which most of the drovers reveal that at some time each of them has done something for which a bounty could be placed on his head. Cracking under the strain of uncertainty, Girard, one of the drovers, draws on Shepard. When Rowdy Yates tries to disarm him, the gun goes off and Rowdy is wounded in the chest. After Girard rides out of the camp, Rowdy learns who Shepard is really after. (TV-PG)

An Irish prize fighter (Bill Travers) carrying a mysterious, heavy sack joins the drive on his way to a mountain destination.

An ambitious drover (Neville Brand) causes a stampede which leaves Favor injured and Rowdy in temporary command.

Rowdy quits after an argument with Favor, then becomes a trail boss himself and promises to outrace his old boss to a railhead.

A wild bull causes the death of a drover and threatens to stampede Gil Favor's herd. Thunder and lightning make the cattle nervous and a young drover is thrown from his horse, trampled and killed before the cattle can be calmed. This is just the latest in a series of mishaps dogging the cattle drive. Undermanned and overworked, the drovers' tempers are short, and responsibilities weigh heavily on trail boss Gil Favor. To add to their worries, a wild bull appears at the fringes of the herd, spooking the cattle. Gil orders Fuller, an uncooperative drover, to track and kill the bull. Hey Soos accompanies Fuller and they come upon the bull unexpectedly when they are on foot and unarmed. The animal charges and Hey Soos runs, but Fuller is fatally wounded. His death is the final blow for Gil. He resigns as trail boss, announcing that he will kill the bull himself, then return to his home in the east. (TV-PG)