How the West Was Won

Kate Macahan's sister, Molly Culhane from Chicago, joins the family. A Mormon family arrives at the homestead while fleeing religious persecution, but the patriarch soon charms Laura.

Zeb sides with the Sioux after the Russian incident triggers a war - and the clash leads to a great leader's sacrifice.

Luke's attempt to foil the Flint gang's gold robbery scheme doesn't go as planned. Zeb rescues a woman from two hide-cutters and is surprised to find a love from his past.

With the sheriff's son held hostage by Flint, the robbery moves forward, leaving two men dead. Jessie's condition worsens as the doctor can't help her.

Zeb learns Beth's husband is supposedly a dead, guilt-ridden Army hero involved in a military massacre.

Jessie recovers with the help of the Aapaho, but the tribe finds itself on the brink of starvation due to the broken promise of beef shipments.

On the journey home, the stagecoach carrying Molly and Jessie is wrecked - and a dazed Jessie wanders into the desert, where she meets the young Navajo Teel-O.

Deek Peasley is reluctantly hired to lead the search party for Jessie, who tries to bridge the language gap with Teel-O. The cattle drive gets underway, shadowed by Tap's rustler cronies.

Jessie and Teel-O have a fateful encounter with Teel-O's grandfather.

Luke is jailed pending his hearing, and from his cell, gives a newspaper interview that draws trouble to Las Mesas. Apaches disrupt the cattle drive.

After he learns of presence of gold, Deek bribes a land agent to seize ownership of the Macahan creek. Tap takes extreme measures to keep Zeb from learning about the rustlers.

A vengeful Stillman hires local power broker Francis Britten to help convict Luke. Deek moves onto Macahan land, and Tap confesses the truth to Zeb. Luke gets a mysterious visitor..

Luke's hearing begins and things look bad for him. Frank Grayson produces proof that Luke was a member of the Flint gang.

Fleeing jail with Josh, Luke finds Judge Rensen dead. When the brothers split up after narrowly eluding the posse, Josh is attacked and Zeb's pursuit ends in a face off with Stillman.