
Lucas McCain raises a son while battling desperados in New Mexico.

When a rancher dies after the bank forecloses the mortgage on his property, his son blames the banker for his father's death.

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.