Colton tries to help a Union army veteran left mute and immobile by the psychological horrors of war.

Colton has second thoughts after accepting the position of deputy to the dubious sheriff of a sleepy Montana town.

Colton befriends a Union soldier who returns from war to find that his father has been lynched by bigots.

A swaggering gunfighter targets an aging Confederate veteran, and Colton steps in to deal with the bully.

Sworn to avenge his brother's death, a hoodlum comes gunning for a small town's local minister. When Colton arrives to warn his old friend and ex-soldier, he finds the man unwilling to resort to violence to protect himself and his pregnant wife.

Colton joins a sheriff in search of a town's destroyers.

A murder suspect's son makes life difficult for Colton when the boy tries to clear his father's name.

Colton becomes the target of an assassin when he is the sole witness to a robbery and murder.

Unable to perform the deed themselves, a group of religious colonists attempt to recruit Colton to kill a powerful landowner trying to evict them.

While trying to defend his wife's honor, a friend of Colton is killed... and Colton is torn between seeking justice and keeping his word to turn the other cheek.

When a doctor proves to be as full of whiskey as he is of self-pity, Colton must perform an emergency appendectomy on a young gunfighter.

Colton provides the defense in a kangaroo court trial of a former Union Army officer.

Colton is drafted to help a posse hunt down a seemingly harmless recluse.

Colton neither likes nor respects the man he has been deputized to protect: a rabble-rousing preacher who fears death from an ex-convict.

While a young gunman lies dying in a cave, a ruthless man waits outside hoping to get his hands on the boy's loot. (Part 1 of 2)

Following the late Johnny Sharp's instructions, Colton arranges for the four people closest to the gunman to meet at the undertaker's parlor. (Part 2 of 2)

A group of reformed criminals deputize Colton to defend and protect them.

When a well-intentioned immigrant is stripped of his nest egg in a rigged card game, Colton takes on the con artist.

A man who deserted from the Army wants Colton to escort him back to his fort.

A dance hall girl mistakes Colton for her mail-order bridegroom.

Following the murder of a man during an Indian attack, Colton witnesses a town's prejudice towards the man's Indian widow.

Colton encounters a little girl riding his horse — which was stolen from Colton during the stagecoach robbery in which he was shot and left for dead.

Colton is accused of slaying a sheriff.

In the darkness Colton kills an intruder, and discovers the man is an Army Lieutenant.

Colton becomes involved in a romantic triangle when he saves a friend's bride-to-be from a runaway horse.