Hunt XVII continues as Hunt and his men confront thieves, murderers, and con men. Hunt’s new neighbor causes trouble, and Hunt asks Sheriff Collins to step in to prevent a killing. This only adds fire to the problem, and Hunt’s angry neighbor disappears. When he returns, he confronts Hunt with a man who claims to be the rightful owner of Hidden Valley, Hunt’s ranch. Hunt stands to lose his ranch, livestock, water, and mining rights unless he acts, and he is forced to go to court to save it. Hunt and his men continue to resolve conflicts between ranchers and settlers as more arrive and stake claims to land that irritates a rancher who has used it for years, and Hunt’s men come too late to save one family. Hunt’s men travel to Wyoming to solve a dispute between two ranchers and end up in a gun battle in a saloon where one of the ranchers’ sons shoots a man in the back and then draws a gun on Bill Robertson, one of Hunt’s best deputies. When they confront the rancher and his hired guns, the rancher and his men go for their guns, and the U.S. Deputy Marshals are outnumbered. This episode of Hunt is filled with gun battles, land thieves, con men, and surprising finales.