
Lucas McCain raises a son while battling desperados in New Mexico.
A rancher is shot by an unknown killer, and his daughter's lover is jailed.
A group of outlaws devises a plan to get rid of Lucas so that they can take over the town of North Fork.
After Lucas kills a mountain man in a barroom brawl, his father arrives in North Fork determined to take revenge on Lucas and Marshal Torrance, once he breaks his other two boys out of jail.
A dying gunslinger attracts trouble to North Fork.