A stranger approaches the drive saying he's looking for work. They hire him, and he turns out to have been a fellow soldier and POW with Rowdy during the Civil War. It is also revealed that he is embittered by the way he lost his Virginia plantation and wife during the war, and had become a vicious bounty hunter to raise the funds to buy back his plantation. He claims, though, that he has given up bounty hunting. But the nervous drovers don't believe him and worry that they might have wanted posters on them, either through judicial mistakes or due to deaths they don't know about from past saloon fights and such that they fled from. Eventually we learn that he is after one of the men on the drive, and what a surprise it is! Written by chipe

One punch from saddle tramp Trask kills a man, who caught Trask breaking into his house for grub. The fugitive signs on as a drover for trail boss Gil, hiding the only item he stole from the family's home - a tiny portrait of the victim's blind daughter Marion. Then the local sheriff catches up with the drive, asking Gil to take along young, pretty Marion, who's now all on her own. Trask's secretiveness troubles the other steer-men, but his hot temper and great strength keep the other cowpokes at bay. He is unwittingly assigned by Favor to drive Marion. They become close friends and Trask wants nothing to hurt Marion further. Written by David Stevens

Favor is short hands so every mistake is magnified as he presses the men to do more. When young inexperienced Danny Clayton lets cattle stray, he and Scarlet are sent to work drag. Sinister old cowboy Simon tracks Favor's drive, spooking the drovers. When Danny shoots at a rabbit in brush, thinking it's the avenger, he causes a stampede. Danny lies that he was firing back at Simon. To join the cattle drive, Simon rounds up strays from the stampede and turns them in to Favor, so Favor hires him. Simon immediately begins grilling the drovers about their past. Favor is happy with the job he is doing but his manners irritate the drovers who want Favor to fire him. As the drive stops, the local Sheriff arrives looking for wanted men. He has a poster on Simon for killing his wife but Simon has proof he was cleared. He tells Favor that while he was in prison seven years for manslaughter his new bride left him for another man who deserted her and Simon is looking for him. She killed herself ... Written by David Stevens

The drovers find young Ben Whitney IV at a water hole baking in the sun. Once revived they learn his horse fell and he is lost and stranded. When he finds his wallet missing, he accuses Favor of taking it. Ben decides to stay with herd and Favor gives him a job helping Wishbone and Mushy. He does his job but he rubs the entire crew wrong with his attitude and mistakes. A new hand, Sam Hargis, is an old bronc buster who also irritates the men but he and Ben become friends and Sam becomes a protective father to Ben. Ben eventually learns Sam's son was killed in the war with him and Sam left his wife after the war. Sam learns Ben is running away from his own father. Ben is eventually given a chance to work as a drover by Favor and admits to Favor he later found his wallet in his jacket. When Rowdy chews out Ben, Sam intercedes and drags Rowdy in retaliation forcing Favor to fire him. Sam tracks the herd looking for revenge against Favor when Ben decides to stay with the herd. Written by Anonymous

Gil plays peacemaker to stave off a range war which could endanger his herd. Gil's commandeered as a witness at a hasty wedding between young members of the opposing ranchers, which ends with the groom killing his new brother-in-law. Two locals who say they want to get far away from the impending conflict, sign on as drovers with Gil, who needs more saddle tramps to push his steers across a river before more beef-hungry gunmen arrive. When Favor tries to find a route out of the conflict, he finds two men stranded giving him four additional men. However, when he is gone the two latest additions provide liquor to his men hoping to trap his herd due to drunk drovers. The next day Favor learns the four men are working together for the biggest payoff. When the herd refuses to cross a river, Favor realizes he has to act immediately before he is outnumbered. Written by David Stevens

While searching for grass, Trail-boss Favor comes across mule and a lone exhausted woman and her baby on the trail. He takes them to camp where she recovers and the men become attached to the baby. She says her husband was killed and she is from Tennessee headed to California. Wishbone and Favor decide to keep her with them till they reach the next town which is a few days away. After spotting the mule, the baby's tyrannical grandfather Gantry and his sons show up demanding the return of the mother and baby. The woman's husband had died, and Gantry ordered her to marry another son, causing her to flee. Favor refuses to hand the woman over, and Gantry returns with many more men. Clay and the woman vainly advise Favor to avoid a war over her. Gantry wants revenge in the form of the baby and 50-100 cattle. Gantry with the help of friends actually tries to go for broke - punishing Favor by stampeding the herd and stealing some cattle, and grabbing the woman and child but they are ... Written by chipe

Hearing gunfire, Rowdy and a couple drovers rescue three soldiers under attack by Comanches. They are all that is left of a patrol instituting a treaty violation which seizes land for white settlers. Gil's Confederate vets resent sheltering the three Indian fighters, because their Sergeant is a Galvanized Yankee, who went West into the Union Army, to get out of a POW camp. Brutal Sgt. Duclos, who fought for brilliant Southern Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest and was a West Point graduate, also recently killed the son of the chief Gil negotiated with for passage through Comanche land. The Chief's wife was also accidentally killed by horses in the same battle. Rowdy regrets saving the three survivors, because now Chief Broken Bow may attack the cattle drive to capture Sgt. Duclos. To prove his point Broken Bow has a drover killed and dressed in a Sgt.'s uniform followed by burning out a friendly settler. The husband is returned to the drovers while his wife and son are kept prisoners until ... Written by David Stevens

Favor is away trading cattle with the Army leaving Rowdy in charge. The herd is being surrounded by large packs of wolves. A wolfer, Abner Cannon, working for the Army offers to help Rowdy with the problem for fifty head of cattle but Rowdy doesn't believe in paying a man twice to do his job. When the wolves become worse and all the men are forced to work all night, Rowdy relents and agrees to pay an even higher price to the wolfer. The man has two sons and a daughter helping him. He refuses to allow his daughter to talk to the men but at night when her dad is wolfing, she becomes friends with Wishhbone and then Rowdy who teaches her the alphabet. She tries to read a letter her mother sent with the little teaching Rowdy gave her but is forced to ask him to read the letter to her. After reading the letter himself, Rowdy tells her to put the letter back and ignore it. When she confronts her father about the letter in front of the sons who are also curious, Abner knocks out the boys. ... Written by Anonymous

The men are playing and pull Sam Garrett into the scuffle. Sam is moving some cattle with the herd to Sugar Creek and when his shirt is pulled up they learn he has been whipped. He tells them he was in prison. Later his horse stumbles and Sam is seriously injured by the herd. At the same time Clay returns with news that tick fever is ahead of them. Favor sends Wishbone and Rowdy to Sugar Creek for the doctor, tick powder, and to find Sam's son. The doctor refuses to tend to Sam, the store refuses to sell them the powder, and Sam's son Jody refuses to see him. Back at camp they are surprised to see the doctor forced to come by Marcie who owns the saloon in town. The doctor tends to Sam and Marcie tells Favor that Sam was convicted of treason during the war for selling cotton to the north. Favor tells the town he may be forced to take the powder by force. At a town meeting Sam's father-in-law reveals he set Sam up for taking his daughter. The question is whether the men will stand ... Written by Anonymous

Favor sends Wishbone and Rowdy to town to pick up supplies for the drive. Rowdy abandons Wishbone to get a bath and spend the evening on the town. At the saloon Sheila Delancey is mad at the owner John Landy for leaving her alone again. She decides to roam around the saloon where she strikes up a conversation with Rowdy while they share drinks. The bartenders try to stop her but are forced to spike the drinks of her and Rowdy hoping they will go to sleep. However, the two become a bit crazy and decide they should be together forever. When Rowdy notices a minister in the bar, he has the minister marry them. They don't know the marriage is invalid as they were married by a wanted outlaw posing as a parson. Afraid of Landy's return, Rowdy takes her back to join the cattle drive until they reach another town to deliver the girl. Landy does purse her to the drive, but Favor shoos him away, but he continues to follow the drive. Meanwhile, the wanted man is out of parson garb, and is hired ... Written by chipe

While the herd is held up due to Army problems with the Kiowa, Favor visits his friend Lije Crowning. He finds Lije broke and his ranch foreclosed. Against his better judgment Favor allows Lije to add his 30 head of pasture cattle or Querencias to the herd along with Lije as long as he follows Favor's rules. The cattle don't want to leave home forcing the men to work harder to keep the herd moving and Lije's continual ailments keep him from helping. Lije offends the drovers with his braggadocio, insults, incompetence and failure to obey instructions. Lije takes advantage of the men with crooked cards, liquor and mundane tasks causing the men to avoid him. He cheats Hey Soos, the wrangler, dealing blackjack and gets Quince fired for drinking on the job. The final straw is when Mushy takes Lije's fancy Henry rifle to go after a mountain lion and almost dies after Favor assigned Lije to kill it. It is too late to make amends with the men but he tries before leaving camp when Favor ... Written by Anonymous

The old prospector Monty Fox stumbles into camp playing an accordion but passes out dehydrated and hungry. After he recovers he regales Mushy with stories of Quivira which has unlimited gold and a Fountain of Youth. During the night Monty and Mushy steal supplies and horses to search for Quivira. Favor can only afford to send Rowdy after them who catches them as they enter an encampment with a boy and women some wearing gold jewelry. A man in a military uniform arrives taking them prisoner and puts them in chains. They learn the men there are remnants of a California Army group on its way to the Civil War that revolted, killed their officers, and decided to stay looking for Quivira. The men talk to Sergeant Parker's twelve year son who has never seen the outside world and wants to know about it. The four remaining soldiers decide to kill the three men but the Sergeant has second thoughts after talking to his son about his future. He and his men have made a prison for themselves there. Written by Anonymous

Stopped at a ranch to buy 18 cattle for themselves, Rowdy, Quince and Hey Soo come across a boy with a crippled leg who wants to join the herd as a drover. Though extremely capable as a budding doctor, he dreams of becoming a drover despite his leg (actually because of his leg). Rowdy won't take him along, but the kid disobeys and follows anyway. Before Rowdy can send the kid home, some friendly Mexican bandits hold up the three drovers, take their 18 steers and kidnap the kid for a ransom from his family. Rowdy wounds one of the bandits as he rides off with the kid. Waiting for the ransom, the kid and the bandit bond and discuss their past misfortunes. They learn that past hates and misfortunes shouldn't twist their current pursuits. The kid even mends the bandit's wound, and concludes that he would be a poor drover, that pursing that career was due to misplaced pride. Eventually Rowdy, Quince and Hey Soos confront the bandits. Written by chipe

Favor and Rowdy find the gabby Polk Tolliver The Burin Man with a hearse broken down in Cheyenne territory. The drovers help repair the hearse that evening and when the men turn down Poke's offer to pay them, they accept his offer to play poker as he has a wad of cash. Quince and Scarlet have a winning night. The next day Cole Striker and a woman named Georgia appear after being scared by the Cheyenne. They join the drovers along with Poke. Poke is really a counterfeiter and Cole and Georgia are after him for leaving them holding the bag in previous schemes. Poke unsuccessfully tries to break away but the men don't want to lose their poker partner. When the Cheyenne surround the drive and take Clay prisoner, the drovers are surprised at what they want - the hearse and driver for a grand send-off of their dying chief! Written by Anonymous

The tough and rough aging trail boss Harry Maxton, who once hired and taught Gil Favor, is told by a doctor he is going blind and only has a year or two of sight left. Favor has a lot of respect and gratitude for him, so when they run into each other in a saloon, Favor offers him a drovers job with Favor's herd riding drag noticing Maxton is short on funds. Maxton readily accepts but doesn't tell Favor about his medical problems. Maxton's rough disposition precedes him causing the men to give him a chilly reception. Maxton is taunted by one young tough who was fired by Maxton when he was a trail boss. He tries repeatedly to aggravate Maxton into a shootout but Rowdy and Favor intercede. Meanwhile, Maxton proves inept as a drover, and Favor might lose the herd as water holes and streams have dried up. When they they hit a poisoned waterhole, they need water and Maxton tells them where to find it but Clay is unable to locate it. Maxton decides to prove Clay wrong. In a final gallant ... Written by chipe

Needing supplies the drovers go to town and to let off some steam. A younger drover Willie Cain takes a strong interest in a beautiful blonde, Judy Hall, learning she sings at Lola's - the saloon. The men are entranced by her singing. However, the drinks are watered, the games are crooked, the girls steal money and when Rowdy has Wishbone check the supplies, they find they are bad. They take the saloon apart and force the store owners to replace the supplies. As they load the wagon, they here screams. Rowdy stops Lola and friends from tar and feathering Judy who they think told on the town. The men take her to their camp and Favor gives her a job helping Wishbone. Willie tries to force his attentions on her but she rebuffs him with Rowdy's help. She helps Rock learn how to write his wife when the men tease him. Willie's jealousy leads to Rock's death. They learn Judy is a wealthy heiress giving Willie the idea for him and Joe to kidnap Judy for ransom. Favor is sent for the money but ... Written by Anonymous

Sara May Green asks Rowdy and some men to stop her father's lynching. Josh Green has been sentenced to hang by a wagon train for the death of Lafe Thomas's son. As Green never defended himself during his hearing, the wagon master agrees to let the drovers take Green, his daughter and Thomas to a town for a proper trial. In the drovers camp late at night Green escapes and takes his daughter. Favor says to let him go but Rowdy decides to catch Green. Rowdy finds them and starts back with them. When they take a rest, a group of Kiowa Indians break into camp. They take Rowdy's weapons and when they leave, give them to Green who knows the leader. When Rowdy later kills a brave who comes into camp, Green tries to kill Rowdy until Sara May wounds him. Green tells Rowdy to take Sara May and warn the drovers the Indians are after their horses. He finally tells Rowdy what happened with the Thomas boy and decides to stay behind to delay the Kiowas. As Rowdy and Sara May ride off they hear ... Written by Anonymous

Spoiled, callow brother of richest man in the area gets outdrawn and wounded drawing on a notorious fast gun (Jack Jennings) who had tried joining the drive incognito so he could outlive his reputation. Favor and Jennings take him (Little Sam) to town for medical attention and wait at the saloon till the sheriff returns so they can report the self-defense incident. Meanwhile, brother Big Sam shows up threatening revenge. Also involved, by coincidence, is the ex-girl friend of Jennings and current be-aux of of Big Sam -- Kate Merrill, who is hostess-singer at Big Sam's saloon. Little Sam dies from the wounds, and Big Sam organizes a mob to storm the saloon and lynch Jennings. The bloody outcome is a surprise ending I have never seen before. Written by chipe

As the drovers prepare to celebrate Rowdy's birthday, two men ride into camp. Rowdy recognizes them as men he spent time with in the Yuma POW camp. He knows they want to settle an old score but is willing to go alone with them. They ride to a setting that is as forbidding as the overcrowded, disease-ridden Yuma camp they survived - the wrecked courthouse of a trailside ghost town. For 6 years, ex-CSA Captain Cabot and his devoted followers searched for prison mate Rowdy, who's anxious to put the U.S. Civil War behind him. They find an old alcoholic living there who had been a judge. Cabot tells the judge he has a trial to preside over. After two more men arrives one of whom is paralyzed, they have a kangaroo-court trial of Rowdy for treason. They believe he betrayed their escape attempts. Written by David Stevens

Drover Quince is arrested on the charge of shooting in the back the town's most prominent citizen (the Major), but Quince was drunk at the time and remembers nothing. With a trial set for the next day, Favor and Rowdy investigate. The Major was killed in the alleyway near the saloon and near the stable where Quince passed out drunk. Della, the saloon owner, who has her office right by that ally, is the only person in town who says Quince might be innocent and shouldn't be lynched, so Favor suspects she knows the truth and can give testimony freeing Quince. In a stunning conclusion, Della saves Quince by telling the assembled would-be lynchers that the Major had feet of clay and exploited the town, denouncing the townies, and revealing the name of the killer. Written by chipe

Rowdy, Wishbone, and Mushy stop in Calvin for supplies where they and the local men are smitten with the beautiful Abigail Fletcher. She owns the Silver Slipper Salon so before leaving town they decide to stop by the saloon for a drink. At the bar they spot a photograph of Gil Favor in uniform with a dedication to his bravery and death in the war. The bartender informs them that Abigail is his widow. After telling Favor at camp, he decides to go to town to see this for himself. True enough, he recognizes the picture from a wedding where he was best man followed and Abigail who faints. She confides to Favor that after the war she and her husband, who had lost everything, traveled West, but had even worse luck - her working in saloons and her husband resorting to crime and being lynched for murder. So she moved on and pretended to be war-hero Favor's widow. Upon hearing this and feeling protective, Favor pretends to be her long-thought dead husband who had been suffering from amnesia.... Written by Anonymous

Having been forced to kill a man in self-defense in town, back at camp Rowdy is faced with an ominous new drover who looks exactly like the man he killed in town! Rowdy, Hey Soos and Calhoun were in town to pick up supplies and some wired money. John Day holds up Rowdy, shoots Calhoun and is shot dead by Rowdy. Three days later when the trio return to the herd, they find Favor's newly hired drover Rivers, who has all the clothes, mannerisms and eerie mood of the dead John Day, but he shrugs off all questions. First, Rivers disturbs Calhoun so much that wounded Calhoun has a deadly relapse. Next, he frightens superstitious Hey Soos so much, that he is severely injured backing off over a cliff. Then he taunts Rowdy into a fight, hoping Rowdy will kill him and hang for it. It turns out that he is a long-thought-dead brother of John Day, and his future plans had depended on moving to new territory with the brother Rowdy killed. Written by chipe

Three drovers find two nuns stranded with their wagon and a man they rescued from a native torture device intended to kill him. The man is near death but slowly recovers as the nuns join the drive until they reach the next town. The man is eventually able to talk and provides his name. Sam Barnes, a recently added drover, recognizes him as a Comanchero with an especially bad reputation. A little later the leader of the Comancheros along with a few men stop at the drover camp to tell the drovers they want the man, Maria Jose Chappala, returned to them but Rowdy is unwilling to do so. Chappala tells Rowdy and the lead nun that he was the leader of the Comancheros but he was being replaced so he left - with the group's money. Sam decides to leave the drive but returns later mortally wounded with a knife to warn the drovers and the nuns. Rowdy has till the next morning to decide what action to take and he knows what the nuns expect. Written by Anonymous

A clumsy philologist (and former circus clown) stumbles into the trail camp. The man is hoping to compile a dictionary of the Comanche language so that they and the whites can better understand each other. It's a critical time for understanding, as the local Comanche chief is threatening war against the whites if his young son, who became ill while studying under a government education plan, fails to recover. Written by anonymous

A gypsy convinces Wishbone that he is going to die, so Wishbone becomes very kind to the drovers so he can have mourners at his funeral. Meanwhile, a wealthy man has paid $500 for the gypsy's daughter, and comes to collect his bride.

Taking in three White children kidnapped by passing Arapahos puts the fatherly drovers in peril. Longing to return to the Apaches who raised them after white men killed their settler parents, Yellow Sky and her younger siblings resist the drovers' every step toward turning them over to authorities in the next town. Arapahos seized the children from the Apaches during tribal warfare. Widower Gil, who misses his two daughters, expects gratitude for a noble act, but the Apache chief, Ulzana, wants the children back and will fight the drovers for them, if necessary. Written by David Stevens

While looking for water Favor and Hey Soos see a runaway stagecoach. After stopping it, the mortally wounded driver falls off. The five passengers: a bickering theatrical couple, an army lieutenant, a lonely woman and a white man (Domingo) tell Favor it appeared to be an Apache attack. Favor agrees to guide them to the next station while he also looks for water. Except for horses the station is deserted putting Favor on edge. As he spots the station manager's body in the well, he is wounded by a gun shot. Favor and the five passengers take refuge in the station but with few supplies. Favor surmises that the Apaches are after Domingo since he knew about them and admits living with them for 16 years. They want him after fighting and killing one of them for a female Mexican captive. Domingo is suspected of being the infamous thought-dead bandit Joaquin Carrillo Murrieta. Lt. Carter tries to ride for help but returns mortally wounded. As time passes and supplies become short, Favor hopes ... Written by Anonymous

Favor and Rowdy are facing execution ordered by the local Mexican tyrant for the death of his son. Rowdy and Wishbone were in town to get Wishbone's aching tooth pulled when Rowdy gets into a fist fight with the sons of the tyrant, who demand an exorbitant fee for the herd's passing through what is actually public range. (In fact, the family, which claims royal privileges and grants, has the entire town buffaloed, and has the inhabitants afraid and reduced to practically serfdom). Later that night the brothers and some henchmen decide to stampede Favor's herd through the drovers' camp (destroying men and property) and scatter the herd so they can steal it. However, the plan falters as one of the brothers accidentally dies in the stampede. Favor and Rowdy ride to town to explain the mishap but are sentenced to death for murder in a kangaroo court ruled by the arrogant, anti-American father. Their only chance of rescue is if those who know that it was a death by accident stand up to the... Written by chipe

Father-in-law (Stanton) is determined to break up daughter's (Lorraine) sudden marriage to Burt Harvey because he considers Burt a coward who quit the war in the midst of the Battle of Gettysburg after his brother was killed beside him. The episode begins with the couple's marriage at the drovers' camp. Burt had joined the drive with his 40 head of cattle to travel a short distance with Rowdy's herd and then switch off to a ideal valley where he intends to homestead with his wife. Issues of Indian raids and the lack of water change the route the drive must take. Also complicating things is that Stanton, who has 800 of his cattle mixed in with the main herd, suddenly shows up insulting Harvey and insisting that Lorraine return home. However, a surprising revelation makes for a happy ending, reconciling Stanton, Harvey and Lorraine into one happy family. And water is found. Written by chipe