Mistakenly hailed as a hero who downed four robbers, a man rethinks his decision to let folks regard him as a gunfighter when protecting the woman he wants calls for a gunman's skill.

A circus family comes to town and charms the populace, who don't know the family's real stock in trade is larceny.

Kitty welcomes her mentor to town, but her friend is burdened by a secret: she's here to deliver the child of her outlaw son, a man willing to take his own mother hostage.

Drought and crop failure leave Dodge without fruit or vegetables and a farming widow and her son very ill with scurvy.

A man comes to town and tells Sam he's going to shoot Matt. It's soon understood he is an old friend of Matt's. Soon this drifter is Involved in shooting and killing a man, and his and Matt's friendship is stretched as he claims self defense even though he was the only one armed.

After eight years in a prison for robbery a farmer returns home and hopes to find the stolen fortune he had buried under a tree.

A scholarly man in Dodge is actually a former commandant of a Civil War prison camp.