Police chief Marge Gunderson -- a serious sleuth who's sharper than her folksy accent suggests -- is hot on the trail of a Minneapolis car dealer conspiring with two kidnappers to snatch his wife so he can pocket part of the hefty ransom.

At the request of a damsel in distress (Helen Mack), noble cowboy Ken Maynard agrees to look out for the woman's younger brother (Paul Fix) by giving him some honest work on the ranch. But when the boy bets Maynard's money in a crooked poker game and loses it all, a blackmailer (Roy Stewart) cons the impressionable youth into robbing the Fargo Express stagecoach. Can Maynard convince the sheriff (William Desmond) that the boy was double-crossed?

Dale Robertson stars as tough but tenderhearted lawman Jim Hardie, protector of the Wells Fargo stagecoach line -- the vital link between California and the rest of the country -- in this shining example of television's golden era of Westerns. Chuck Connors, Michael Landon and Steve McQueen are among the many guest stars who join Hardie as he faces down outlaws in this collection of episodes from the show's first five seasons.