Bart swings into trouble when he tries to help the cavalry uncover a traitor — and winds up facing a hangman's rope.

Bank robber Big Ed Murphy is at his wit's end: someone keeps beating him to the loot — and that someone is Bret.

In St. Joseph, Missouri, Beau Maverick wins halfl-ownership of the Golden Wheel Casino. The business venture is short-lived when his partner, Rand Storm, is shot to death by Flo Baker. Storm was a notorious ladies' man and Flo, a female entertainer, was resisting his advances. Just before he dies, Rand tells his younger brother, Luke, that the shooting was an accident. But Luke has Beau framed for murder so that he can take over the business.