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- Nora Sutton asks Tom to take her to Clifford Henderson's house. After he does so, she calmly takes out her gun and shoots Henderson dead. She refuses to say why she did it or even ask for an attorney, so Tom is appointed to that role, and he determines to get the answers himself.
- Tom tries to help Charity Lloyd locate Wesley Jerome, a man no one claims to have heard of. What Charity has not told is that Jerome is actually her husband, Wes J. Lloyd, a wanted outlaw.
- Riding through Leadville, where a ruthless group of thugs has been forcing out or killing anyone who stakes out rival mine claims, Tom comes across a deaf-mute girl who's father has just been murdered by them. The killers think she can't identify them, but Toothy Thompson, who knows sign language, can communicate with her and finds out she can. Toothy and Tom are both deputized by the local sheriff, and Bronco Layne also arrives in town to help out.
- Stopping in Virginia City, Tom sees brutal Sam Brown almost knife a man to death when the man challenges Brown's bet against celebrated actress Adah Isaacs Menken's planned ride on a black stallion. When Tom defends Brown's victim, the killer announces his intention to make Tom his next killing. Meanwhile, Tom becomes involved in the search for Miss Menken's black stallion, which has escaped from his stable---and he also gets involved with the beautiful Miss Menken herself. This story is loosely (very loosely) based on historical fact, as Miss Menken, Sam Brown, and Benecia Boy Heenan were real historical figures.
- Tom's friend Ben Crain asks for his help in trying to legally stop a railroad from running its trestle through sacred Indian burial ground. Ben is the son of an Indian mother and a white rancher whom he is no longer on speaking terms with since his mother's death. The father is nevertheless not selling to the railroad so far, but another landowner, brother to the rancher's new wife, hopes to change his mind and is determined to not let Ben or Tom get in his way.
- Tom is left caring for a newborn baby boy after the child's mother does not return to the train they were riding on after getting off at a stop. When he returns with the baby to the town where she got off, no one will admit to having seen her. Actually, she is being held hostage by the man who bosses the town---her brother-n-law, whom she knows killed her husband.
- When the crooked politicians who run Bluerock see what a lousy shot Tom is, they appoint him sheriff after the previous sheriff is killed. Tom takes the job seriously, though, and when he sees a pair of boots standing against a wall in the sheriff's office, he puts them on. A pretty young girl watching him says those boots were her father's, the previous sheriff, and Tom isn't man enough to fill them. To show her she's wrong, Tom determines to find her father's killers.
- Tom persuades the people in the town he's working in to give another chance to Cully Abbott, an old friend of his from his childhood, who's just been paroled after serving time in prison. All goes well until two outlaws recognize Cully and decide to pressure him into taking part in a robbery with them.
- In order to trap a gang of bank robbers, Tom lets word slip out that he knows the location of the loot from their last robbery.
- Tom is appointed to lead a cattle drive when the trail boss is shot by outlaws. The boss' daughter reveals the drive's secret destination to a handsome young cowboy she has a crush on, not knowing that he's actually one of the outlaw gang. He carries that information to his fellow rustlers, who then set up an ambush.
- Tom is forced to serve on a jury in the case of a rancher accused of rustling cattle, for which the judge is calling for hanging, and a public auction of the man's land, if he is found guilty. It quickly becomes apparent that everyone else on the jury is too anxious to convict, despite weak evidence, and that they are too afraid to defy the wealthy rancher who has brought the charges and wants the accused man's land. Tom holds out for acquittal and persuades the jurors to hold a secret ballot. But the deadlocked verdict is only the beginning of the problems Tom and the jurors will have to deal with.
- Tom learns that the owner of an Indian trading post, whom he was supposed to collect money from, is now dead. Tom volunteers to conduct an inventory of the post, despite finding an Arapaho "devil doll" in his backpack which is apparently meant as a warning and a curse. The owner of another trading post wants to buy the dead man's post himself, though it was willed to the owner's Indian stepdaughter and she has no plans to sell it.
- A stone mason with no boxing experience decides to enter a boxing match to raise money to save a mission from demolition, with Tom as his trainer. But the man who plans to buy and raze the old mission has too much to lose to take even a chance that the fight not go his way, and decides to make absolutely certain that it does.
- In the town of Forty Mile, cryptic messages are being sent to five citizens which seem to indicate a plan for vengeance against them for the lynching of a young man three years ago. One of the men being threatened is the sheriff, Tom's cousin, who failed to stop the lynching. Tom, who has come to manage his cousin's election campaign, gets involved in trying to get to the bottom of what's going on.
- A merchant hires Tom to deliver a wagon load of blankets and medicinal supplies to the Indians, with a beautiful Indian girl going along as a guide. Afterward, however, Tom discovers that the blankets and medicine are not the only things in the wagon.
- On the road, Tom meets up with a sick older man contemplating suicide. A hotheaded kid also stops by, as does his older sister who is determined to discourage his idea to join a notorious outlaw gang. To give the old man and Tom some shelter she brings them to her house, only to find that the outlaw and his gang are holding them all at gunpoint, with a seriously wounded member of the gang that the boy and his sister used to know.
- Tom stops in the town of Provision only to get a good night's sleep and rest his horse. But it is apparent people don't want him to stay, and when he takes a hotel room, a man comes to try to tell him something and is shot dead from outside. Seems many in town, including the mayor, sheriff, and other leading citizens, think Tom is an investigator sent by the state who may uncover unpleasant truths. While the mayor hopes to bribe Tom to keep him quiet, the sheriff wants to kill him.
- Tom comes to accept a job as deputy marshal, only to find that the marshal has been killed and thus he is now needed to replace him. He reluctantly agrees. But just after taking his oath three Scotsmen in kilts arrive and claim that Tom is the rightful heir and thus chief of the MacBrewster clan. Before he can decide which job to stay with Tom, and the Scotsmen, must deal with the same outlaw gang that killed the marshal.
- Tom's friend Sandy Randall has sent for his Swedish mail-order bride. But instead of his own picture, he sent one of Tom, thinking he was better looking, hence when she arrives she thinks Tom is the one who sent for her. Before either Sandy or Tom get a chance to tell the bride the truth, another much more dangerous and jealous man from her past arrives, complicating matters for all.
- In Medora, Tom meets Theodore Roosevelt, who has come with the intent of buying a ranch, though he is warned that the big cattlemen in the area don't want to share the open range. With Tom's help, Roosevelt decides to come to the assistance of a widow and her daughter whom the ranchers want to force out. He decides to buy half her land so that she can stay on.
- Sugarfoot unknowingly figures in a scheme by Mercy Preston to get rid of two men who are standing in the way of her owning a rich mine. However, Mercy's sister Patience finds out about her plans and tries to help Sugarfoot.
- Tom is informed by letter that an uncle of his died and left him one-quarter interest in a mine. But when he arrives to make his claim, he finds that his uncle was killed in a brawl, and that no one knows where the mine is or even if it exists. All he is able to claim is two mules, which he uses to build a railroad spur. But someone seems to want to sabotage the spur, and he wonders if it has to do with how his uncle died.
- Tom is on a train accompanying a young woman and her Arabian stallion when his car is separated from theirs and the train is held up by an outlaw gang. The leader of the gang, a slick, cunning man known as The Baron, kidnaps the girl and her horse and takes them to an island off the Gulf coast. Because the U.S. and Mexico are in an unresolved dispute over which possesses the island, it is effectively lawless and The Baron has proclaimed himself its ruler with no one to stop him. Tom makes his way to the island by posing as the horse's veterinarian whom The Baron has sent for in order to please the girl, whom he plans to force into marriage.
- The stagecoach Tom is riding on is held up, and its driver killed. When the bandits open the strongbox, however, they find only sand inside. Determined to get the money they'd been planning on, they hold the other four passengers hostage and send Tom into town to get the money from the business partner of one of the men on the stage. But when Tom tells businessman why he needs the money, he doesn't believe him. Tom has to find another way to get the money to save the passengers' lives.
- The owner of a silver mine can't meet his payroll because he's been robbed. Tom tries to find out who's behind the robberies.