Billy falls in love with a girl whos life he has saved. Phoebe Canfield is running away from her violent and over controlling father. Billy must stand between Phoebe and her father if he is to marry the girl he loves.
WhenOld Doc Baines passes away and young Dr. Wade Parsons tries to take his place, the local citizens regard him with mistrust.
There was a time when Don Diego wanted to marry Rosa, but now all he wants is to see her dead.He believes that she put a curse on him.
Garrett is called in to investigate when it becomes appaarent that the Mescalero Apache are getting guns and ammunition illegally.
Garrett encouonters Burt and Luke Tugwell who are engaged in a grim manhunt. The quarry is their sisters husband who ran off and left her with a baby.
Isobel Stewart, an old classmate of Pat Garrett's arrives in town with her sickly husband, Henry. Pat and Isobel renew their friendship causing the overly jealous Henry to plot revenge. When Henry turns up dead, Pat and Isobel are the prime suspects.
Billy, Sadie Wren and Jason Cutter all have one thing in common. They were all acquitted of murder by juries in Judge Croomwell's court, much to Cromwell's displeasure. Now the judge has definite plans to correct these verdicts with his own brand of private justice.
Abner Moody walks into the Lincoln County jailhouse and demans that Garrett jail him for grand theft. In case Garrett has any doubt, Abner has a valise full of stolen cash to prove it.
A tired Billy takes a snooze during a train ride and misses some intersting action. A marsahll uncovers an illegal gun shipman and is shot by the conductor.
Showman Jacque Montreaux and his four lovely song-and-dance girls arrive in town, and Jaques stops off to show Garrett a letter from the mother of one of the girls, asking that plans to kill Billy the Kid be called off.
Garrett takes his wounded prisoner, Bob Kelso to Doc Beckett's office to be treated. Kelso tries to confince his ex-girlfriend, the doctors daughter Amie, to help him escape. Garrett must keep a close eye on the situaton or lose his prisoner.
Maw Kilgore and her boys, Hyram and Dwig, meander down from the hills for a little fun in town, which consits of smashing up the local saloon.
Angelita Sanchez has an old Spanish land grant she thinks is valuable.Garrett agrees that it show Angelita owns half of Lincoln County.
A stage coach carrying four mail-order brides is forced to stop in Lincoln when the Apaches go on the warpath. The housing situation is desperate,so the girls turn to Garrett and demand that he put them up in jail.
Tom Davis asks his friend Pat Garrett to watch over his fiancee Miss Harper and her son David while Davis is out of town on business. Pat and Miss Harper find their relationship is deepening as they spend time together. Pat finds himself torn between his loyalty to his friend and his love for Miss Harper.
The railroad line is coming through and that means eviction for the McBean family. But May and June McBean get an idea. Pa can stop the process server if he pretends to be Sheriff Pat Garrett.
Cyrus Skinner,the town skinflint,has purchased his tombstone. Fate, however, seems to have other plans as the tombstone appears over the grave of Maria Gonzales, whose husband,Juan was too poor to afford one.
Billy has a job riding shotgun on Bert Wilson's stage. It looks like a pretty routine run until they are surprised by a bandit named Pollitt.
Suffragette Amy Dodds throws a brick through Pat Garrett's window and demands to be arrested. Garrett refuses, so she goes on down the street to Murphy's saloon and throws some more bricks.
Billy wants to impress a gentle girl named Charity, so he stops wearing a gun. Then a couple of hired killers show up and they are out to get Billy.