⁣Hoss attempts to comfort a boy (David Ladd) whose father is in jail, but not for long.

⁣ Mr. Cheever brings his nephew to work at the bank, hoping to discourage him from entering show business. Though he's to get no special treatment, Mooney constantly sucks up to young man. The nephew impresses Lucy and she encourages his aspirations.

⁣Lucy is so overworked that Mary Jane warns her she'll have a nervous breakdown. Meanwhile, a performer from the bank's benefit show leaves his trained ape in Mr. Mooney's office. Lucy sees the simian, believes she's finally snapped, and is convinced that the hairy creature is actually Mooney.

⁣Lucy calls in sick so she can join her roommate at a Palm Springs resort. Unfortunately, her boss, Mr. Mooney, is staying at the same hotel.

⁣A gang of convicts has escaped from prison, but Capt. Rynning's can't get any more men to help capture them.

⁣The worst drought in 20 years has struck the valley where the Norths have their ranch. While Champion searches for a waterhole for his herd of wild horses, a unscrupulous foreman tries to force and elderly woman to sell her ranch for a pittance.

⁣An old cowboy returns to visit Ricky and Sandy and help them round up a gang of desperadoes.

⁣A friend of Jim's is asked by President Andrew Jackson to dissuade a group of French planters from seceding from the Union.

⁣Jim sets out after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.

⁣When a gunfighter comes to Diablo to get revenge on the sheriff for sending him to prison, Annie sneaks the aging sheriff out of town.

⁣ Mr. Wong owns valuable property in town and someone wants to get it cheap. They harass and attempt to convince Mr. Wong to get out of town.

⁣The Grangers are unaware that the charming young man from Boston, who has come to look over their ranch, is an outlaw planning to purchase it with the money from his first holdup.

⁣Lofty has jailed Hugo but he won't reveal the location of the stolen loot. Annie thinks if they let Hugo escape they can trail him but they don't count on him kidnapping Tagg. Tagg, as a hostage, makes Hugo's life miserable.

⁣Annie is in charge of the sheriff's office and is being bothered by braggart Chet Sterling's antics. His uncle Frank's bank is robbbed and Tagg names one bandit as Trem, Frank's friend, after he secretly trails them. A double cross, killing, and frame up follow.

⁣While Annie and Lofty pursue an outlaw who killed a sheriff, Tagg tries to coach his schoolteacher on the finer points of romance.

⁣ A Dutch gunsmith shows Annie the revolutionary new rifle he has developed for the army of his adopted country, but word of it spreads and outlaws become interested.

⁣When a member of Teddy Roosevelt's famed Roughriders returns to Diablo to homestead valuable land he'd been promised for reenlisting, he discovers the property is part of an Indian reservation. A crooked land agent frames the ex-soldier for murdering a brave in hopes of provoking an Indian war, which he will use for his own land-grabbing ends.

⁣Annie tries to help the town doctor regain his confidence after being unable to save the life of his father.

⁣When a rancher murders his cousin over an inheritance, he tries to use a midnight ride to create an alibi.

⁣Annie has to come to the aide of the widow Malloy and her son Dave when they are being threatened to sell their land or suffer more of the same treatment.