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- The Gold Hill folks help an unmarried 16-year-old who is pregnant and has been abandoned by the father.
- Matt struggles when he is a witness to a robbery: one of the robbers is his friend.
- While in town to sell two cows for much-needed money, Father Parker receives a sign to purchase a horse, Thunder, to enter into the town's $1000-jackpot horse race. With Mr. Rodman breathing down Gold Hill's neck about empty food shelves and Thunder refusing to be ridden, Gold Hill could be in trouble.
- A gunfighter rolls into Jackson, bent on changing his ways and visiting his son, who is housed at Gold Hill. Adults and children alike are excited by the idea of a famous gunfighter in their town. But can the gunfighter get people to leave him alone? Should he tell his son that he is his father?
- Lizette gets a job sewing and finds out about the ups and downs of adolescence.
- Mountain man Eli comes down from the mountains with his adopted daughter Dru and brings her to Gold Hill for some education. Later, some of the kids get themselves put into the Claymore work camp so they can save Ephram, who was sent there.
- After Ephram is jailed and sent to Claymore workhouse and Will and Drew get themselves sent there so they can rescue Ephram, they discover that it isn't as easy to get out as they thought. It looks hopeless until Murphy hatches a plan to get them out.
- Just when they're settled in at Gold Hill and feeling safe, a visiting priest sent by the Bishop throws a wrench into the gears. Father Parker's inexperience and one boy's bedwetting cause Murphy, Mae, and Moses problems.
- Moses decides to take on a hate-filled youth, Lijah, who starts to change for the better--until a dreadful accident on a freight run.
- When Gold Hill runs short of money, they accept an offer of a school administrator, along with state funds. This results in unforeseen circumstances, including Murphy and Moses being kicked out and Gold Hill becoming a work camp.
- When a gold rush strikes the town of Jackson, greed in the form of town bully Paul Garrett causes the death of a number of gold panners, and schoolmarm Mae, freighter Murphy, panner Moses, and 11-year-old street kid Will team up to take care of the orphaned children. At first, Murphy gets cold feet and runs off Will when he is afraid of getting too close, but Mae's quick wit brings Will and Murphy together. When Mr. Rodman threatens to take the orphans to the workhouse and it looks as though the Church won't provide support in time, a surprise priest shows up to assist.
- An old man who wants to woo an old educated woman decides to go back to school at Gold Hill, but ends up also teaching.
- The kids band together to show they can help with the work that would be too much for Moses to do alone as well as know how like canning fruits/veges so Murphy and Mae can go on a much needed honeymoon in Mae's hometown of Omaha Nebraska.
- In a town that doesn't know them, John Murphy and Moses Gage are mistaken for two notorious outlaws--one a big white man like Murphy who goes by "Big Jake", the other a Black man like Moses who's known as "Black Jack."
- While Murphy and Mae are gone, the kids talk Moses into letting a gambler temporarily use the school as a gambling house, in exchange for a percentage of the profits and a piano. When Mr. Rodman finds out, he becomes enamored with gambling. When he loses his mother's savings, he reports the gambling hall to the gambler's mother, who heads a group that wants to remove gambling houses. As this group heads to Gold Hill along with a returning Murphy and Mae, a split decision will lead to either Moses getting caught or him hiding what has transpired.
- A young ex-Confederate army bugler comes to the school looking for a meal. After he begins attending the school, he exposes his Southern attributes by rebuking Moses for "acting like an equal"; his beliefs eventually lead him to join a group of white-sheet-wearing racists in their nighttime excursions to rid the town of Blacks.
- Fr. Parker sells the kids' favorite old horse, Laddie, not knowing their attachment to the animal; some of the kids take off after the rustles to save Laddie.
- Richard Garrett, the equally evil brother of deceased Paul Garrett, arrives in town to pick up where Paul left off. Problems erupt when Matt gets a crush on Richard's daughter Elizabeth.
- A man visits Gold Hill to inform one of the orphans that s/he might have been named by a lately-deceased aunt to inherit her fortune--but is he really there to take him/her to the reading of the will as he says?
- As potential adoptive parents visit, the orphans must deal with such emotions as angst, disappointment, and joy.
- Murphy has trouble coping with his grief when he accidentally kills an abusive father whose son is at Gold Hill.
- Murphy's friend, a local man, has a daughter he cannot control. At his wits' end, he brings his daughter Emma to Gold Hill. She proves to be a bad influence on the Gold Hill kids, but the real trouble starts when she falls in love with Murphy. She figures that if she gets Gold Hill closed down, Murphy will have to go off with her, so she tells Rodman of Murphy's secret. This creates a crisis and it looks like Rodman will finally get his way and have the kids transferred to the Claymore work camp. Meanwhile Fr. Parker continues to be blocked by Garrett in purchasing a building for a church.
- Murphy finds and buys property under the guise of opening an honest gambling establishment; it will actually be the church for Fr. Parker. This is where he and Mae get married, which makes them eligible to adopt the orphans.
- Gold Hill's owner shows up talking constantly to his invisible mother, bringing more than a few laughs--but also worry from the Gold Hill folks that he might actually find gold and they will need to leave.
- Ms. Hansen, a rich widow, comes to Gold Hill to adopt an older boy to take over her husband's empire, but there's a crisis when she decides to adopt one of the boys who is not up for adoption.