The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
The drovers deal with a tumbleweed (prison) wagon and a beautiful female prisoner, Dallas.
The drovers come across a mission where a friend of Rowdy's is getting married.
After the drovers take in the passengers of an overturned stagecoach, a mysterious man named Jardin arrives and says that he's there to kill one person... but won't say who.
Rowdy stays on in a town to help a young wife trying to escape her husband... who is the town's marshal.
Colonel Millett, trying to form a new Confederacy, convinces most of the drovers to join his cause after Gil's orders accidentally get a young drover killed.
Gil incurs a rancher's anger when he gives candy to an Indian boy whose father has land the rancher wants.
Gunman Brazo Ford joins the drive to look after his younger Lance, who wears a mask to hide a burn scar.
Four female sharpshooters abandoned by their manager meet up with the drive.
When a town shuts out the drive after Rowdy is apparently stricken with anthrax, Gil turns to a young inexperienced nurse for help.
A preacher, Brother Bent, joins the drive after he discovers gold but preaches against it. His parishioners have driven him off, and now cowboys are following Bent trying to find out where his gold is.
Gil and Rowdy have to deal with a bandit, Sanchez, and a man that he has secretly slipped in with the drovers to sabotage the drive.
Gil discovers that a new drover has a woman hidden in his wagon... when the woman's husband comes looking for her.
Gil and Rowdy track some missing cows to a seeming ghost town, and soon discover that the few remaining residents are caught in a savage feud.
When a thunderstorm spooks a cow and it kills a local farmer, a war threatens to break out between the drovers and the farmers.
A con man, Bateman, dresses up as Santa Claus and tries to convince the drovers that his son is dying so that they'll offer valuable presents.
The drovers save a pitchman, George Stimson, at the cost of one man's life. However, when they try to raise money for the dead man's family, George's ideas end up backfiring.
A military officer discovers that one of the Indians that he despises... is his wife.
A German count takes three of the drovers prisoner and puts them to work as his servants.
Mushy gets involved in a family squabble when his cousin asks him to deliver her sister to their mother. Problem is, the sister wants to pursue a career as a saloon girl, and doesn't want to go.
The men are forced to turn to a female doctor for help when one of their own is injured. However, the hands don't trust her, and a local quack is trying to run her out of town.
The drovers are reunited with their former scout, Pete Nolan, who is trying to deal with Wild Horse, an Indian who has gone renegade and is attacking the horses that Pete is escorting to General Augustus Perry.
Rowdy is lured to a house where several other strangers are trapped. They are all locked up together, and someone starts killing them one by one.
A demented gold miner holds the drovers prisoner in a ghost town in the hopes that they'll help him--and his three equally captive daughters--mine the gold that he has convinced himself exists.
Favor has to deal with another trail boss whose herd has ticks, and threatens to spread the ticks to Favor's cows.
The drovers arrive outside of Abilene, but an outbreak of smallpox threatens to keep them from ever entering the town.
John Shepard, a man Rowdy served with during the Civil War, shows up and Clay recognizes him as a bounty hunter. The drovers worry that he's after one of them.
A thief joins the drovers after accidentally killing the mother of a blind girl... who then accompanies the drovers to the next town.
The drive picks up an older drover, Simon Royce, who soon comes under suspicion when a hand turns up dead.
An abrasive older drover, Sam Hargis, befriends a new drover who is equally abrasive, and Sam views the newbie as the son he lost in the Civil War.
After Lissa Hobson's husband dies, the drovers find her and her baby in the wilderness. They take her in but Lissa neglects to tell them that her in-laws are after the baby and will stop at nothing to get it.
Rowdy and the drovers come to the aid of soldiers beset by Commanche Indians. However, when the Indians attack the herd because of their legitimate grievances with the soldiers, Gil and Rowdy have second thoughts.
With Gil away on business, Rowdy hires a wolver and his kin to take care of a pack attacking the herd. However, the wolvers have issues of their own and things get complicated when Rowdy gets involved with the daughter, Julie.
The drovers turn to Dr. Walter Harper in the town of Sugar Creek when one of their drovers is injured. However, Harper--and his fellow townspeople--refuse to have anything to do with the drover.
After a night of partying in a cow town, Rowdy wakes up the next morning and discovers that he's married. However, his new wife's intended has something to say about it.
A friend of Favor's, Lije Crowning, riles the drovers and almost gets one killed because of his bad attitude after he joins the herd.
A destitute miner rolls into the camp and offers to guide anyone interested to the lost city of Quivira... if they'll help him with the soldiers who drove him out.
The Cheyenne want the drovers' new traveling associate, undertaker Poke Tolliver. So do a couple who claim Poke has counterfeit plates and left them holding the bag.
Gil's mentor on the trail asks for a job... and hides the fact that he's going blind from glaucoma.
The drovers take in a saloon girl, but her presence soon sows trouble among the men.
The drovers stop a wagon train from lynching a mountain man, but then the man escapes with the daughter he was accused of attacking in the first place.
Gil comes to the aid of a drover who turns out to be a gunfighter trying to lie low so he doesn't have to kill anyone else.
Two Confederate POWs "arrest" Rowdy and take him to a trial in a deserted town, with a drunk ex-judge as the man in the charge.
Gil and Rowdy try to convince a saloon order to testify when Quince is arrested for the murder of a town's leading citizen.
The drovers stop off at a saloon and spot a photo of Gil: identified as a war hero and the dead husband of the owner, Abigail Fletcher. Gil decides to play along when he hears Abigail's hard-luck story, and soon gets into trouble.
Rowdy kills a man in self-defense... and a drover who could be the man's twin shows up at the camp to hire on.
The drovers come across two nuns who have cut down a tortured Comanchero from a rack. The nuns want the drovers to help, but the Comancheros want their prisoner back.
The only chance of averting a war between the Comanche and the white man lies with a former circus clown turned philologist.
A Gypsy holds a fortune-telling ceremony for Wishbone... who draws the black ace three times, foretelling death.
Rowdy takes pity on three stranded white children who were raised by the Apache and want to go back to the Indians who took them in. However, the Arapahoes are at war with the Apaches and want the children as hostages.
Gil and Hey Soos are on the trail and rescue a runaway stagecoach. They take shelter at a station against attacking Apaches, and soon realize that one of their number is an infamous bandit who the Apaches want for revenge.
A local tries to stampede the herd when Rowdy inadvertently takes it across private lands. The local is killed and his father, Don Francisco Maldenado, puts Rowdy and Gil on trial for the death.
While is Gil is away, Rowdy returns to the camp and finds a wedding underway... and a suspicious father-in-law lurking in the background.
When Gil is injured, Rowdy is forced to rely on a new drover, Lou Bowdark, to find water for the herd. However, he doesn't trust the man, and his suspicions soon prove true.
Colonel Macklin joins the drive, but the drovers are caught in the middle when the Comanche demand that they hand Macklin over for war crimes against the Indians.
Rose Cornelius and her clan cut off the drovers from passing through a open range valley, and Gil has to become sheriff of the nearby town to get her arrested.
The drovers pull a sick man, Bolivar Jagger, out of a river only to discover that he's wearing leg irons. At the next town, they discover that the Harger brothers plan to lynch Jagger for killing their father.
The drovers get involved in a range war after Rowdy rescues a nester, Matthew Higgins.
Gil is forced to take on an inexperienced boy as a drover in return for the herd's passage across private land.
A boxer throws an exhibition match with Rowdy and talks his way onto the drive, but has an ulterior motive.
A group of rawhiders trick Rowdy into taking a girl back to the herd... and then follow him back to steal the herd and hold a shotgun wedding.
After Rowdy and his friend Rabbit accidentally shoot a man, the dead man's brother curses them to die.
A confidence man and his beautiful partner Crystal Simpson manage to steal the herd's ownership papers. However, when the con man abandons Crystal, she and Rowdy team up to get the papers back.
Gil hires a hunter to kill an escaped circus lion that is stalking the herd. However, the drovers soon suspect that the hunter is more dangerous to them than the hunted.
Mushy wins big at a local saloon, but his earnings drive the drovers to distraction... and get Mushy into trouble when he leaves the herd.
The drovers suffer a string of bad luck, which culminates in Mushy finding a failed Japanese Geisha who appears to be cursed.
The drovers find a white woman wearing Indian clothing, and the Cheyenne soon contact them demanding the woman back because they believe she's a witch.
Wishbone gets involved in a case of mistaken identity and faces a shotgun wedding to the woman he supposedly abandoned 12 years ago.
Wishbone is blinded in an accident, but the doctor can find no physical reason for the cook's ailment.
A Scottish woman joins the herd with her four large bulls, and the drovers soon discover that she's pregnant... and her husband is looking for her.
Gil, Jim, and Wishbone deliver 200 head of cattle to the Apaches to pay off a government debt.
The drovers try to recover a hundred head of missing cattle, and discover that a orphanage owner had to sell them to get the money he needs from a heartless banker.
Wishbone frees a conman caught among the herd, and takes off with him. The drovers follow and discover that Wishbone believes he killed a saloon girl in New Orleans.
A peddler joins the herd and the drovers soon believe that he's a jinx.
Masked vigilantes horse-whip Gil when he tries to intervene in a lynching, and he sets out to find who his attackers were.
Gil is framed for murder by a childhood friend who is married to the commanding officer of the man who Gil is accused of murdering.
The drovers meet up with Pan Macropoulos, a former circus performer looking for a woman he fell in love with 11 years ago after hearing her sing once.
Gil goes in hock to a banker to save the herd, and ends up ceding control to the man.
When a wild bull stalks the herd, an irritable Gil sends drover Art Fuller to deal with it. When Fuller is killed, Gil and Hey Soos go after it on their own while Rowdy tries to deal with the rebellious drovers.
A rich man in the town of Deadhorse gets away with murder because no one is willing to stand up to him... except Gil and the drovers.
Despite being run out of Deadhorse on a rail, Hannibal insists on returning... and all of the drovers but Gil agree to back him.
"Gilded Goddess" Lisa Temple, who runs a casino, is an old flame of Rowdy's and wanted for murder when she stumbles into the drovers' camp.
A Buffalo Soldier goes AWOL from the Army, but when he joins up with the drovers, the real reason for his departure is revealed when Capt. Coiulter comes looking for him.
A former preacher turned drover, Brothers, aids Hey Soos locate a small tribe of Indiana that Brothers preached to years ago.
Gil and Rowdy end up competing against each other when Rowdy leaves the drive and takes on his own herd... and they're both trying to get to their destination first.
Rowdy accidentally kills a man, and Gil ends up looking after the dead man's family.
Piney Kinney joins the drive to use it as a cover so that he and his fellow bank robbers can escape the law.
When Gil puts the herd at risk to meet a deadline and miscalculates, his competence comes under question.
After a band of Gypsies cons Mushy out of the drive's wagons and supplies, he goes off on his own.
When her husband Gurd, an aging gunfighter, won't give up his job to kill a Don, Augusta Canliss asks Gil for help.
After her crew walks, railroad owner Jonathan Damon tricks the drovers into working on his railroad for 90 days.
After Gil escapes jail, he makes his way to the railroad and has to convince the drovers to turn against Damon.
Rowdy is caught in a web of intrigue when Sam Jefferson asks him to take him in to collect a $5,000 reward and send it to his wife. However, someone shoots Sam in the back, and Rowdy discovers that Sam's friends are coming after him with revenge in mind.
An idealistic young corporal is left in charge of a patrol escorting Ute Indians to a reservation, when his superior officer is killed. His men have other plans, and end up bringing in a wounded Gil after they shoot several of the herd for food.
Photographer Taylor Dickson joins the drive and Gil sends him off with Rowdy to photograph some Shoshone. The Shoshone have moved on, as Gil well knows... but the Bad Skin Gang has moved in and need a photographer to give them a reputation.
The drovers arrive in a town and while Gil and Rowdy get a warm welcome, the townspeople are hostile toward the other drovers running roughshod over their gentrified town.
Gil and a fellow trail boss, Hugh Brewster, get abducted by outlaws working for Rian Powers, who plans to use trail bosses to manipulate the beef industry.
Pop Starke tries to sucker Rowdy into signing on with his travelling show as a gunfighter.
A 70-year-old drover, Josh Breeden, insists that he can still do the job, but Gil has his doubts and Josh refuses to let anyone help him.
Rowdy attends the execution of an Army captain eighteen months after Rowdy's testimony led to the man's conviction for murder.
Sheriff Royal K. Shaw arrests popular-with-the-people outlaw Reed McCuller, and hides out in the herd when locals come looking for their hero.
When Pete is put on trial for cattle rustling, Gil tries to clear the scout's name and discovers that an old friend may be responsible.
A grandfather and grandson join the drive to approach Cable, who doesn't recognize his father and son after years away. Worse, Cable, is preparing to rip Gil off.
The drive inadverently heads into Commanchero land, and Rowdy discovers that the Indians are holding a white woman prisoner.
A deserter, Hap Johnson, joins the herd and the Army comes looking for him. Hap leaves before they arrive, but his belongings make Gil look like an accomplice... and the soldiers arrest him.
While the herd faces a prairie fire, Wishbone runs afoul of three drovers who plan to steal the herd.
Major Cantwell tries to embezzle $32,500 from the Army that found him guilty of an infraction he didn't commit, but an enlisted soldier Kaster that Cantwell had cashiered finds ouit about the scheme.
Gil hires a one-armed Civil War veteran to determine why the herd is dying, but soon learns that a banker is out to eliminate the veteran.
Former Confederates are raiding stagecoaches and threaten the herd, and one of them is Gil's old commanding officer.
Wishbone decides to leave the drive, and ends up defending a woman with three children and an abusive husband.
Gil discovers that treasure hunters on a dig are blocking the herd's path to water. He also needs the help of the head archaeologist, a doctor, when Wishbone is injured.
Federals come looking for a revolutionry, El Hombre Bravo... who Gil and Mushy realize is a schoolteacher that they've met.
When several drovers become sick, Gil takes them to a nearby hotel in a ghost town. A mysterious woman, Lottie Denton, is stranded there, and the drovers soon discover that there are men after her.
New trail boss Rowdy runs up against Morgan Kane after Kane and his people shoot two drovers who try to stop a lynching.
New drover Danny Hawks is suspected of stealing horses, and Rowdy has to decide his guilt or innocence.
To make a cattle drive in six weeks, Rowdy is forced to take on Lash Whitcomb as Segundo, and Lash will do whatever it takes to get the herd delivered on time.
When Quince and Simon are caught in a cave-in, new drovers Ed Rankin and Jerry Boggs offer to get them out... for $500.
Tensions mount when Rowdy hires a band of Chiricahua braves to help drive the herd. Their leader, Jacob Yellow-Sun, is one-quarter white and faces challenges of his own from his braves.
The Gufler clan takes Rowdy hostage after they con him out of $100, and threaten to hang him unless the drovers pay ransom.
Colonel Vasquez forces Quince, Simon, and Jed to sell 200 herd of cattle for 40,000 pesos. However, when they try to cash the money, they discover that it's no good.
To shelter the herd from a coming storm, the drovers get involved in a war between suffragette Cassie Webster and the crooked men in town.
A marshal hunts down Jed for a murder charge that Jed claims he was cleared of.
A drover insulted by the top hand Rowdy is delivering cattle to tries to challenge the man who questioned his honor.
Major Buford is conducting a range war against carpetbagger Duke Aberdeen, and Rowdy tries to stay neutral as both sides use the herd to get back at the other.
A cavalry detachment demands a hundred head from the drive and leaves a requisition with the drovers... and they soon discover that the "soldiers" are cattle rustlers in disguise.
Rowdy deals with an alcoholic trail guide and his young son.
