Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman

Mike favors the train coming to Colorado Springs, but Sully doesnt, and the issue derails their relationship.

Loren leaves town to look for adventure. Meanwhile, Brian enters puberty.

Matthew inherits cattle and leads a drive home.

Matthew resists Sullys advice as he struggles to bring the cattle home.

Mike donates her fathers book collection to start a library, but Rev. Johnson has moral objections to some of the volumes.

Mike offers her surgical expertise to help a disfigured man, despite the towns view of him as a "monster."

Mike leads Sully, Cloud Dancing and the family on a mission to Washington to lobby on behalf of the Cheyenne.

The familys adventure in Washington, D.C., continues.

Sully cant afford to meet the expenses on the new house, but Mike can. Meanwhile, Myra begins sleepwalking.

Heading home for Thanksgiving, the stagecoach carrying Mike, Sully, Kid Cole and Sister Ruth is robbed.

Mike detects a possibly cancerous lump in Dorothys breast.

Dorothy insists that the decision whether to have surgery is hers, not Mikes.

A Jewish family arrives in town at Christmastime, bringing their own seasonal traditions and competition for Lorens dry-goods business.

Sully is sworn in as an Indian Agent, but bureaucratic corruption undercuts his efforts on behalf of the Cheyenne.

A newspaper report of a comets imminent collision with Earth causes hysteria in the town over the end of the world.

Mike befriends a strong-willed woman whos determined to scale Pikes Peak alone.

Mike and Sully decide to formally adopt Colleen and Brian, but the kids father and his new wife challenge them for custody.

Mike and Sully fight Colleen and Brians biological father for custody.

Dorothy wants to stage Romeo and Juliet for Valentines Day.

Robert E is hired to repair a steam engine to keep the construction of the railroad on track.

Mike takes in a young Belle Starr after she's wounded trying to rob the saloon.

A paleontologist wants to dig for dinosaur fossils on a Cheyenne burial ground.

While substitute teaching, Mike learns that one of the students is being neglected at home. Meanwhile, the townsfolk are riled when Mike introduces the theory of evolution.

Starvation among the Cheyenne hastens an increase in raids on settlers, and Gen. Custer and his men arrive to quell the outbreak.

Gen. Custer escalates the battle with the Cheyenne, culminating in the Washita massacre.