Adam MacLean falls in love with the sister of a renegade killer.
All the local cattle are threatened with rapidly spreading hoof-and-mouth disease.
An Army deserter sacrifices his life to save the man assigned to bring him back.
McLean has to two face a pair of bank robbers. (Shown as the premiere episode)
A duel of honor serves as an excuse for killing, when a man intends shooting the husband of his former sweetheart.
Townspeople are swindled by a "sweet, young girl" seeking her missing brother.
A man steals silver trinkets from the Dakotas' burial grounds.
Adam MacLean attempts to win statehood for the Dakotas.
When Mark Ryan came to Yellowstone, he was a lonely frightened man running from death, though his soul had died five years before. From another direction rode three former troopers of the Seventh Cavalry, driven by a single idea: to kill him. There was an aftermath of the Custer story and it happened in Yellowstone.
When a large ranch owner uses a reign of terror to force small ranch owners to sell, McLean runs a special edition.