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- A tale of a salty old hunter too proud to change his way of life. The frontier is fast disappearing and so is the wild life that afforded men like Jed Daniell a decent living.
- Episode opens with Ben Pride camping on the high desert late at night. After Ben falls asleep we see nothing but a man's legs & feet walk into camp, unhitch Ben's horse and ride off on it, bareback. Ben has to walk a far piece into the closest town where he eventually locates his horse in the same hamlet and, with the help of the law, also locates the man who rode it in just a few hours before. The horsethief is identified as a kid named Baker, a penniless orphan and drifter, aged 15, who has remarkably-clean clothing as well as a very sharp haircut for such an impoverished waif. Put on trial, with Ben furnishing evidence for the prosecution, young Jay Baker is quickly convicted. After the jury has rendered it's verdict, the innocent-faced juvenile delinquent is first lectured by the town's elderly Judge Platt, who then sentences the teenage horsethief to death by hanging, sentence to be executed the next day. The severity of the sentence stuns Ben Pride and a beautiful girl, Millie Peters, who has just made our hero's acquaintance. Visiting the Baker boy in jail, with the required hammer-blow sound-effects in the near background as they build the gallows, Ben becomes acquainted with the unfortunately kid's hard- scrabble life-story and is driven nearly crazy that a fairly-benign crime has earned the boy a date with the hangman the following day, particularly since it was Ben's own testimony that will soon break the kid's neck. The local Sheriff is none other than Judge Platt's own son and he is able to call another hearing before the same Judge that very night to reconsider the sentence of death on the youngster. Later on, without any official retraction of the death sentence, the Sheriff simply releases Baker to Pride's custody because he feels his dad has grown senile in his long service to the community and doesn't appreciate what he's doing any longer.
- Chance is hired by four nuns who are intent on heading to an old mission. Chance informs them that the trip will be treacherous as the local Indians have grievances and are seeking retribution.
- Susan Douglass leaves her Indian husband Red Eagle so she can raise their child in the white world. She faces hostility from her family and a determined effort by Red Eagle to get his child back.
- Tim and Chance expect to have a quiet evening in town but a visit to the saloon turns out to be a bad idea. An incident with gambler Franklin turns ugly and the man wants vengeance on the two friends.