The notoriously lazy Jackman brothers discover their mortgage has been foreclosed.

A dance hall singer asks Lucas to care for her daughter in an effort to hide the baby from her self-righteous, bigoted father.

A salesman can't talk his way out of an assault charge.

Lucas's self-confidence begins to slip away when he misses an easy shot.

A famous buffalo hunter tries to goad Lucas into a shooting match.

An Englishman arrives with a custom-made rifle—and a plan to kill Lucas.

Lucas encourages a drunken artist charged with murder to use his talents to identify the true killer.

A veteran returns with tales of heroism and the fate of Milly's brother in the Civil War.

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Lou looks for a way out when the man her dying father promised her to arrives.

A peddler is implicated in a series of murders.

A Japanese nobleman seeks revenge when his servant is insulted.

Mark discovers that the new preacher and his wife are impostors planning a robbery.

A former army captain comes to North Fork to kill the man who shot down his son in a gunfight - Lucas McCain.

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New arrival Mario Arsatti becomes very friendly with Lucas, but this turns out to be merely pleasure before business: he's been hired to kill Lucas.

Aaron Pelser's wagon train came across a pair of young boys on a buck board heading west and invited them to join the train. When he found out that one of the boys was actually a girl and the two claimed to be headed to Yuma to get married, Pelser and his crowd force them to be married in North Fork. The wagon train folks want to throw a shivaree, which may have been innocent enough except for two reasons. The first reason being that the couple does not count it as their wedding because they want to be wed by the groom's father in Yuma. The second reason is that Chet Packard keeps pushing things too far, beyond the spirit of a friendly shivaree.

Lucas is the town's representative to the railroad commission until an infamous train robber dies and leaves his ill-gotten wealth to Lucas. Lucas must clear his name and stop the reckless ambition of his replacement.

After the daughter of Lucas's friend the hotel clerk arrives in North Fork, two strangers threaten her life.

Lucas tries to do a good deed for the old town drunk but it backfires when the drunk's son believes he inherited Lucas' ranch.

When a horse dealer transporting a prize stallion stops in North Fork, two saddle tramps try to use trickery to obtain it.

When Mark finds gold on their property, a fast-talking salesman who tried to sell Lucas a new lightning rod offers instead to buy the ranch's mineral rights.

In a ghost town, Lucas, Mark and Micah tangle with the Newman family and learn the secret of the town's 20-year-old mystery of a lost gold mine.

Lucas tries to dissuade a latter-day knight from rushing into battle.

Mark Twain visits Southfork, and quickly alienates the townspeople.