Escorting a neighbor girl, Ben Cartwright barely saves them from a forest fire. Escaping with them is Rudolfo Chavez, who joins a posse hunting down bank robber Tiburico Vasquez and kills two of the bandits. He later holds Lucy Mather and Little Joe for ransom. The Cartwrights run him down and wound him, upon which he confesses that he is Tiburico Vasquez.; Three miners have been killed, and the community is riled up against nearby Paiutes. Hoss and Jack Swilling capture a band of Apaches, proving that they, not the Paiutes, are responsible. Jack, the Cartwrights, and the sheriff cut off angry miners riding against the Paiutes, preventing a frontier war.; Bedrock Barnes encounters an Apache family; the father has been gratuitously shot by a pair of saddle tramps. Bedrock Barnes renders aid, finds and pummels the shooters, then turns their horses over to the family. He helped the strangers because he has a debt to the Golden Rule.; A group of Mormon immigrants, trying to reach Utah with hand carts, suffers tragedy in 1856.