Custer comes to Fort Hays to command the 7th. The recruits of the 7th struggle to become soldiers, they are only allowed to do work detail, garrison detail and drills. Custer and the 7th comes to the rescue of General Terry and the 5th Cavalry against Crazy Horse.
An expedition into the Black Hills becomes deadly when a lieutenant who hates Colonel Custer disobeys orders, forcing the 7th to return to conduct a rescue. The young man's father, responsible for many flaming newspaper articles on the Colonel, follows, placing everyone in greater danger as they seek to avoid further hosilities with the Indians.
Custer and the 7th must help delivery cattle with a man that hold all cavalrymen in comtempt.
Custer is assigned to track down a Native American prisoner who escaped from Army custody.
Custer and his troops are assigned to take a secret shipment through hostile Native American territory.
When Custer and Crazy Horse are both captured by Blackfeet who are hostile to both whites and the Sioux, the two enemies must work together in order to escape and stay alive.
Lt. Moreno is a Kiowa in the cavalry who his men suspect him of being a spy. The men of command presume that Moreno is trying to thwart the efforts of making the Arapaho an Allie to the cavalry.
After a period of leave, Custer takes a stagecoach back to Fort Hays that is menaced by both outlaws and hostile Native Americans.
Custer tries to halt the spread of smallpox amongst the Pawnee tribe.
A renegade scout who hates Custer cuts a deal with Sioux chief Crazy Horse. In return for gold, he'll lead Custer into an ambush.
A detachment of the 7th Cavalry ends up killing a peaceful Cheyenne hunting party. This event puts a Cheyenne chief and a female reporter after Custer's scalp.
Custer escorts a survey party through a settlement of former Confederates who aren't very happy to see a former Union foe in their midst.
Custer and two other officers match wits with a dangerous Native American warrior at a remote relay station.
Custer tries to protect a Sioux mystic woman from both white and Native American enemies.
Custer is given the task of stopping a band of Irish fanatics who are plotting to invade Canada.
Custer enlists the aid of some Kiowas to help him discover the parties responsible for a series of wagon train raids.
Custer goes in pursuit of a scout who escaped from Army custody after being convicted of theft and killed a trooper while making his bid for freedom.
Native Americans on Television A Discussion with Clementine Bordeaux, an Academic Coordinator / Lecturer for the American Indian Studies Department at UCLA.