Le chef de piste voit son équipe de cow-boys se libérer du stress professionnel en se défoulant dans une ville-frontière plutôt rude...

Gil Favor et Rowdy Yates doivent faire face à une terrible épidémie qui décime leur troupeau...

Favor et Rowdy recherchent des animaux errants. Ils entrent dans une ville minière déserte. Matt Lucas est le gardien. Il dit qu'il est le seul là-bas. En quittant, ils entendent un orgue. Mme Miller et sa fille, Angie, disent que Lucas et son fils, Waldo, ont abattu le conducteur de l'entraîneur de scène et les retiennent en otage.

Favor and a calvary detachment lead by Sargeant Matson swear if they did not know better would think they were under attack from a military unit.

An ailing Favor asks John Cord to take over the herd. He heads them to Dragoon Crossing where the Bates boys demanded tribute when he brought his herd through.

Mrs. Bradley pulls a gun on Victor Laurier and wants to know where her husband is. She knows he isn't dead. Victor was in charge of a POW camp. At the end of the war Victor says he sent 27 union soldiers and three guards, one his son east, but they never reached their destination. Mrs. Bradley got a letter from her husband four years after he was supposed to have died.

The Poco Tiempo bank has been. Rowdy and Quince are suspects and are taken to two nuns to be identified. They say they are not the men. Two desperadoes are holding Father Sebastian until the nuns deliver the money to Blainesville.

Rowdy chases after a buffalo soldier who has killed another soldier and has taken off on his horse.

There's a new drover who has just spent five years in an army hospital and is addicted to morphine.

The drive has reached Sedalia but there is a bank scare and no buyers. Favor must deal with bitter Emma Caldwell to graze the herd.

Favor returns to Philadelphia to see his two daughters. Another passenger is Ogala, Chief of the Pawnee. He is going to be in a wild west show.

Paul Evans is confined to a wheelchair. His wife is preparing to run away with Paul's brother. Pete gets stuck in the middle.

Billy Manson, his mom and sister Laurie are on the way to meet their aunt, who is to take them back east. Two bounty hunters shadow them, hoping to find Clete their wanted father.

Pete and Rowdy are captured by the Kiowa. Two other indians want to accompany the herd to Black Pass.

Rowdy and Hey Soos are robbed by Antonio Marcos. He is leading a revolution against the Texas land grant. Rowdy meets his Dad, who ran our on him and his Ma.

Frank Trask enters the Curtis' at night through a window. He's hungry and takes a picture of a woman. Raymond Curtis hears a noise and checks it outs. Trask knocks him out. Marion, the woman in the picture, ""sees"" Trask leave.

Jagger is fished out of the river with leg irons on. His story doesn't match that of Matt Harger.

While scouting Rowdy stumbles on rawhiders. After Rowdy refuses to kill Brock in a fight, the leader forces Brock to give Rowdy his intended bride in return for his life. Rowdy is allowed to escape leading the rawhiders to the herd.

After Rowdy tells Hey Soos to let a wild stallion go, Hey Soos tries to saddle it again. It bolts knocking Rowdy down and injuring his back. The remuda is stampeded. Out collecting the horses Hey Soos sees the stallion. He tries to lasso it. He is knocked of his horse by a limb and rolls down a hill into a stream. He awakes with his clothes drying overhead. He is in a kimona and a geisha kneels nearby.

The drovers find a young white woman dressed as an indian, babbling.

Three brothers think Wish is their sister's intended.

Rowdy and Quince come across a wee lass, with for huge bulls and a wagon of heirlooms.