Sun, Feb 2, 1964
Seeing an old derelict being harassed by thugs, Doc and Jaimie invite the man to join them on the wagon train. The old codger interests Jaimie and the other kids with his stories about past adventures on the frontier. But he doesn't tell anyone that he recognizes the "U.S. Marshal" who stops by with his wounded prisoner as a killer outlaw, because the outlaw knows a secret about the old man that he'd rather not have revealed as well.
Sun, Dec 15, 1963
A group of miners come to Doc with gold nuggets and offer to show him the location of the mine if he will attend to the pregnant daughter of the camp's leader. When he hesitates, their guns give him no choice in the matter. Jaimie secretly follows him to the camp, where Doc learns that the young woman is four months from giving birth, and that the miners want him to stay with her for at least that long.
Sun, Mar 8, 1964
Doc and Jaimie come across a wounded Army lieutenant, who begs Doc to deliver the pouch he is carrying to Fort Dexter. The pouch contains money to be paid to the Nez Perce for food. But when Doc arrives at the fort, the money is gone from the pouch, and the Indians feel they have been lied to and threaten war. The fort's colonel believes Doc stole the money and sentences him to be executed the next day. Reluctantly, Doc agrees to escape with the prisoner in the adjacent cell his old nemesis Murrel.
Sun, Jan 26, 1964
Doc and Jaimie find a diary in an old wrecked stagecoach, which gives apparent instructions about how to find the way out of the dry valley in which the wagon train is trapped with Linc way overdue to return. Then Jaimie decides to go looking for the mysterious robed figure that is occasionally seen up on the hill. Jaimie, and Doc following after him, discover an amazing secret.
Sun, Feb 23, 1964
Jaimie finds a baby Arapaho boy near the body of his dead mother, one of many slaughtered by an Army contingent. In spite of Linc's warning that bringing the baby on the wagon train will further aggravate the tribe which is seeking revenge, Jaimie hides him in a wagon. A bigoted member of the train demands that the baby be taken back and left to the elements, but his own wife feels otherwise.
Sun, Feb 9, 1964
When Jaimie stops Piggy Trewblood from hanging himself, he doesn't realize the mess that it all leads to. Piggy hopes to buy back his wife, Zoe Pigalle, who he gambled away for 700 dollars. But his efforts to do this land himself, Linc, and Doc in jail, and Jaimie being held as ransom for the money.