A group of outlaws devise a plan to get rid of Lucas so that they can take over the town of North Fork.

A sharecropper enters his colt in a horse race, hoping to win enough money to buy his farm from the owner, who has bet on Mark McCain's entry.

An ex-convict is blamed for a brutal crime despite his claims of rehabilitation.

Lucas tries to stop embittered John Holliver from venting his wrath on the people who expelled him from town years before.