Death Valley Days

The appointed warden of a Nevada prison tries to apprehend three notorious escaped convicts who've been terrorizing the state.

Two thieves murder a Native man for the gold he had mined, but his widow plans her revenge against the killers.

An Army officer helps a young man track down his sister who was captured by Indians years before when the rest of their family was killed in a raid.

The theft of turkeys being brought to market sets up a showdown between lawlessness and justice.

A mail delivery rider attempts to help a widow find the right man to marry and to help tend her farm and rear her young son.

A Quaker farmer undertakes a journey West with his most precious possessions: apple-tree seedlings.

Susan Magoffin, accompanying her husband going west, becomes the first woman to travel the Santa Fe Trail.

A crew of mine developers ingeniously races against time to make it from Arizona to San Diego for an important meeting with bankers.

A young Chinese man uses his ancient book to help a miner win money at a roulette; greed takes over and brings unfortunate consequences for both men.

Newspaper editor Carolyn Romney launches a campaign against outlaws terrorizing Durango, Colorado.

A boat being transported across the prairie on wheels slows a wagon train's progress as they enter Native country, forcing the wagon train driver to leave the boat owners and crew to lag behind.

A wagon train headed to Oregon is abandoned by all of its members in order to prospect for gold; this leaves the train boss, his wife and a prisoner to continue alone into dangerous country.

While traveling to Utah, a group of Mormon pioneers get separated from one of their young boys in an unsettled Native country, leading to a testy interaction.

Judge Roy Bean, smitten by a picture of famous actress Lillie Langtry, begins a lengthy correspondence with her and renames his in her honor.

A widow sues a minister over an act of God.

In a brawling frontier town, Sister Blandina tries to stop a hanging.

Walter Watson is the new boxing instructor at the Olympic Club in San Francisco; after a confrontation with the local bully, he begins training banker James Corbett to face him in a bout that holds the future for both Watson and the club.

A freight hauler marries a rich girl by mistake and has a week to court her before the marriage is annulled.

William Richardson, a Boston sailor, is sent ashore to get water for his ship on arrival in California; while doing his job he finds himself charmed by the land, the Martinez family and Maria Martinez in particular.

A former fired ranch hand, who is in love with the bosses daughter, sees his chance to get a job when the cook leaves.

A bear severely injures a mountain man and the man's colleagues leave him for dead.

California's Mexican ex-governor stops a war.

Robbers steal a woman's dowry-stuffed hat.

A country chicken rancher, bamboozled by a fast-talking insurance adjuster after his coop burns down, goes to court in his effort to get a fair settlement.