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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 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'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.
- 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.
- 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 comes to the aid of a young woman who is trying to keep her late uncle's ranch. The uncle was killed after receiving a loan from a woman saloon owner, and his niece needs more time to pay it back, but it becomes apparent to Tom that there is something on the ranch which the saloon owner wants, and that it may have something to do with why the uncle was killed.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tom takes a job on a ranch, not knowing that his new boss is involved in a range war. When Tom finds out about it, he also finds out that the rival ranch owner is a beautiful young girl.
- After taking a job working for a pretty Asian woman in her road show, Tom meets a little girl who tells him that her uncle plans to kill her. Though he doesn't take her seriously at first, he begins to suspect the uncle may be the man he saw selling rifles to the Indians, and when the little girl disappears he starts to suspect even worse.
- 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.
- While up in the mountains, Tom manages to capture a beautiful wild horse. However, the animal is later stolen from him. When he discovers that it has been sold to a local rancher, Tom gets a job as a stable hand at the ranch, in order to take care of the animal and find out who stole it from him.
- The three Benbow brothers are not trusted in the town of Sand Springs, but Tom hopes to keep the youngest one out of further trouble. When the boy accidentally shoots a man, the judge puts him under the supervision of Tom and the local banker. Trouble occurs when the brothers come into the bank and find the safe cleaned out and the banker dead. Tom hopes to find them before an angry posse does.
- Tom is told that his friend Cliff Raven, a half-Indian who he has been studying law with, is wanted for the murder of a white girl he had been seeing. Tom goes to Raven and tries to talk him into coming in peacefully to prove his innocence, but Raven escapes, not trusting that he will get a fair trial. When Tom finds him in an old mine both he and Raven wind up trapped in it when it caves in.
- A bitter old rancher, with a grudge against the world, hires a gunman to avenge himself against those he believed wronged him. Tom tries to convince the old man to get rid of his hired killer, but if he can't do that then he must stop the gunman himself.
- Tom learns that the law clerk job he came to accept no longer exists due to shortage of funds, but he is offered another job - that of temporary schoolteacher. He accepts, even though the previous teacher was run out of town, and despite an apparently incorrigible group of students led by the son of the rancher who's been diverting water from the area homesteaders.
- 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.
- Tom's Aunt Nancy begs him to defend his cousin---Abram Thomas, aka The Canary Kid, who's been charged with murder. Tom is reluctant, considering his past experiences with the Canary, until Aunt Nancy tells him that Canary's gang is holding a judge hostage and threatening to kill him if their leader isn't freed. Tom agrees to defend Canary, despite the judge's bias---and Canary's further shenanigans.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tom rides out to Job Turner's desert house to deliver the old man a letter from his son, telling him that he'll be arriving on the next stage. But then a group of outlaws arrives, one of them wounded. The outlaws force Tom and Job to lead them through the desert to the border and keep the wounded man alive, not knowing that both men have learned that the outlaws killed Job's son during a stage robbery, and that Job has no intention of leading them to anything but death.
- A woman who's husband recently committed suicide threatens to blow up a hotel with dynamite unless Tom brings the town boss she blames for her husband's death to her.
- 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 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 comes upon a wagon team that has just been attacked by Indians. One of the wagon party is a Corsican who has brought a huge statue with him, which he intends to give to the older brother he is looking for and who has been providing for his family. The younger brother is falling for the daughter of the wagon team leader, much to her father's chagrin. Tom soon learns that the young Corsican's brother is actually the leader of the band of renegade Sioux that have attacked several wagons in the area.
- Tom has come to deeply respect the local attorney who's been teaching him about the law. But he is disturbed to find out that the man may be in part responsible for the oppression of the town's Polish workers, which has even escalated into murder. The trouble escalates when a young Polish pianist arrives and begins rallying the workers, and courting the daughter of a landowner whom the attorney had hoped would marry Tom.
- On his way to the town of Vinegarroon to meet Judge Roy Bean, Tom finds a farmer and his wife dead at their home, and is arrested for their murders when a deputy of Bean finds him there. Brought before Bean, Tom manages to persuade the legendary hard-line judge of his innocence (in part by working on Bean's admiration for actress Lily Langtry) but he is unable to persuade him that the killings were not done by Apaches. The real leader of the killers is a ruthless half-breed who hates both whites and Indians and hopes his killings will cause war between both. But as the killings just start to mount, Bean appoints Tom to take his place as judge while he leaves on a stage to go see Miss Langtry perform.
- 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.
- Young Jack Guild insists that he's innocent of robbing his own father's stage, and asks Tom to help him prove it by going back with him to the town. Tom goes to the judge and the sheriff to ask them to give Jack a reprieve while he searches for new evidence. The judge has become a drunk who can't stand up to anyone, but the sheriff---one Henry Plummer---agrees to give Jack one day's reprieve, during which time another stage is held up and its driver killed. Plummer was a real-life character though this episode is only very loosely based on his actual exploits.
- When Tom rides into town to visit Judge Hall and his daughter Mary John two men take a suspicious interest in him. Later, they abduct him and take him to a deserted town where he meets their boss...The Canary Kid...who is a dead ringer for Tom. The kid takes his place as part of a plan to rob the town bank.
- Working with Christopher Colt (Wayde Preston, crossing over in his "Colt .45" role), Tom poses as his lookalike, the Canary Kid, and agrees to allow the Kid's outlaw gang to break him off of the train on which Colt is transporting him to prison. The plan is to find out the hiding place of the gang, which has been engaged in cattle rustling. But a complication develops when the real Canary Kid breaks out of the army fort he was being held in and makes his way to the hideout himself.
- A number of men have been killed by wolves, including the friend that sent for Tom to come and assist with the problem. But there is indication that more than just the wolves are involved in the killings. An area rancher who has lost several of his trail hands to the wolves suspects a trapper whom he has ordered off his land, but Tom suspects he is not the culprit.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Tom is appointed deputy sheriff of Casa Grande while his friend, gubernatorial candidate John Brice, is visiting. When Brice is shot and seriously wounded, the town is quick to blame hotheaded rascal Toothy Thompson, but Tom prevents them from lynching him. Because of this, Toothy is so grateful to Tom that he wants to follow him everywhere and defend him against every slight, which starts to interfere with Tom's job in finding Brice's real assailant.
- Tom meets up with Galt Kimberly at a river crossing. He has been sent by a law firm to bring Kimberly back to testify that he is the father of a young boy so that the boy can claim his inheritance, but Kimberly doesn't want to come and denies he has a son. Soon three other men meet up with Tom and Kimberly, all hoping to cross the river which is raging too hard for anyone to safely cross. While waiting for the river to recede greed begins to come between some of the men.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tom tries to help a young brother and sister and their sheepherder father, who are being threatened by a local cattle rancher. When the rancher's foreman kills the boy's dog, he and his sister vow revenge, and Tom hopes to prevent bloodshed. He soon learns that the ruthless one is not the rancher but his daughter.
- After his knowledge of the law helps to save a local farmer from foreclosure, Tom is appointed by the town council to serve as the new county clerk. This does not please the district manager for the railroad, who has his own plans for the train's right-of-way and wants to force all the landowners out of its way.
- Tom comes across a woman who is in an apparent state of shock. He takes her to the nearby Army fort, where he finds that the Indians have killed all inside, except for a captain in the barracks who was charged with desertion by the woman's husband, the fort's colonel. The captain appears to have some kind of relationship with the colonel's wife. When the colonel returns with a general and some other soldiers, Tom asks to act as the captain's defense counsel, as he feels nobody has told the truth yet about what really occurred.
- When Tom brings in the bodies of two outlaws who shot each other on the trail, many in town assume him to be a gunslinger as well, and because of this several foreigners try to hire him to kill Harry Bishop, the owner of the mine they work in, claiming that he cheated the rightful owner out of it. Tom winds up accepting a job as Bishop's lawyer instead. But he has regrets after the judge rules in his favor, feeling there is more to the story than what was presented.
- The stagecoach Tom is riding on stops in the ghost town of Antonio Gulch during a heavy rainstorm. Strange things occur which make the passengers believe tales that the town is haunted. Searching around, Tom finds a strange girl and an old man who have been living there and may be causing the occurrences. He also has to deal with one of his fellow passengers, a convicted killer on his way to the gallows, who claims his brothers are coming to free him.
- Eight inmates have escaped from the prison where Tom's lookalike the Canary Kid is serving his sentence, reflecting badly on the prison's reform-minded warden. Believing that the Canary is responsible for the escapes, Christopher Colt hires Tom to go undercover in the prison, posing as a burned convict swathed in bandages.
- Tom answers an ad for a traveling companion from a Russian seaman who is very secretive and difficult to get along with. The man is plagued by nightmares about the shark attack which took his left arm, and is planning to meet with the two unfriendly partners in his silver mine whom he blames for the incident.
- Tom has been assigned by a court to bring a teenage boy back to claim his inheritance. The boy has been the ward of a tonic peddler who has been abusive toward him, causing him to develop a violent streak. The boy is also the prime suspect in the murder of the town sheriff, who was killed in a house everyone believes to be haunted. Tom hopes to prove the boy innocent and get him away from the peddler.
- Tom runs into his childhood sweetheart, but finds out that she is now a dance-hall girl. She reveals that she's trying to leave that life but that a wealthy, powerful and ruthless cattle rancher is going to force her to marry him.
- 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.
- 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 helps Argentine gaucho Curro Santiago to find a bull that escaped from him on the way to being delivered to a ranch. But this causes Santiago to be late in delivering the animal, so the ranch owner stubbornly refuses to pay him but keeps the bull anyway. When the rancher is later killed in a fall from his horse, it is found that he was deeply in debt, and Santiago, as his main creditor, is appointed by the court to oversee the ranch until the estate is probated, which does not go over well with the rancher's children or his employees, particularly his foreman who has other ideas.
- Even though the countryside is racked by a record drought, an old rancher is obsessed with building an Ark and floating away taking Tom Brewster and pretty Anne Carmody with him.
- A poor old homesteader with a large brood is suspected of rustling cattle. Most of the town, including the lady rancher who hired Tom, believe he is harmless, but one rancher wants to see him hung. When the homesteader's eldest son, a gunslinger, returns home, it makes the situation potentially much worse.
- Tom comes to the aid of a pretty young girl after her father, a miner, is murdered by claim-jumpers.
- Tom finds a wounded man on the trail and brings him back to health. But big, simple-minded John Allman is actually a former cavalryman who is being hunted for robbery and murder by a group of bounty hunters called the Outlaw Exterminators. Tom sees his impulsive and violent streak, but still hopes to bring him in alive so he can get as fair a trial as possible. This episode is loosely based on historical fact.
- Tom discovers the bodies of several Sioux who have been massacred, and reports the incident to the local Indian agent. The agent is shot by an arrow while going to investigate, and before he dies appoints Tom as his temporary successor. The killings have been ordered by the ruthless local Army lieutenant, who plans to instigate war between the whites and the Sioux in order to obtain gold in the Black Hills. An ambitious young female photographer also becomes involved in her search for a big story.
- On a train, a French woman asks Tom to hide her bag containing a fortune in diamonds. Just after he does this, the train is stopped by a troop of Maximilian's soldiers, who demand that the diamonds be given to them before the train be allowed to move, knowing that a second train will soon be coming up upon them.
- An outlaw holds Tom, a teacher, and three children hostage in a school while he waits for his schoolteacher brother, whom he claims is holding the money from one of his robberies. Meanwhile, there is another threat: ominous signs that a tornado is forming in the area.
- Tom tries to defend the members of a Gypsy band from the prejudice of members of a nearby town, and particularly from one resident who seems bent on causing trouble for them, including making advances against a young Gypsy woman. When Tom's actions trying to help the girl after a fall are misunderstood by the others in the camp, her wedding to a man in her band is called off and Tom is told he must marry her instead.
- During a professed clairvoyant's séance act, his beautiful assistant predicts misfortune for two men---a judge, and Tom Brewster. When the prediction comes true for the judge, Tom tries to find out if the girl was in fact directly responsible---and if he's going to be next.
- Tom is hired by an elderly Chinese man to help him bring his son's cremains back to China. The leader of a San Francisco gang, however, threatens Tom's life if he continues to assist the old man. Turns out that along with his son, the old man is delivering a map which the gang is after.
- Tom accompanies a colonel to a Mexican town to retrieve the casket of his son, who was killed by Apaches along with five other men. Out of sympathy for the colonel, the town's mayor and his daughter decide to convince the colonel that an orphaned boy, the son of one of the six killed, is really his grandson. But the colonel and the boy have gotten off to a bad start and don't like each other. Meanwhile, the mayor also plans to remove guns he's been holding in the cemetery for President Juarez, but has to prevent his bandit cousin and his gang from finding out and stealing them.
- Tom discovers a plot to assassinate Mexican President Benito Juarez.
- Tom comes to a sacred mountain where fugitive Vic Bradley is hiding with his Indian wife. He tells Bradley that he has been granted a new trial, but Bradley is too fearful of being locked up for even a short time to come back with him, and in a fight with him Tom falls into the cave. Will Bradley have the courage to help him get out?
- Tom accompanies a Sioux chief and his daughter to Chicago to meet with President Grant for peace talks, but a faction of the tribe does not want peace and is determined to stop them, as are some white men who have their own vested interest.