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Hunt travels to Washington to meet with Bekins regarding an idea to trap the James Younger gang. Hunt meets with General Ulysses S. Grant, and General Grant offers Hunt a job in Washington. Hunt's job as U.S. Marshal takes an odd turn when he travels back to Missouri after hearing that the James and...

Hunt returns to Chicago in time for graduation, greets his new recruits, and is forced to help teach the next class by filling in for Deputy Marshal John Rube while John is sick. Both the new recruits and Hunt are happy to see John Rube return to work. Hunt travels to Albany and travels with the men...

Hunt returns to Chicago in time for graduation and greets his new recruits. Hunt visits New Orleans, Austin, and Kansas City as he looks for a strong Deputy Marshal to promote to Marshal. Hunt realizes, after returning to Chicago and studying the reports, that the best recruit was in Denver. Promoti...

Hunt returns to Chicago and awaits word of his future. Hunt once again hears from the Secretary of the Interior and is not happy. Hunt is forced to travel to Washington once again to iron things out. Beth has second thoughts about Denver, and Hunt is tormented by guilt about returning and wonders wh...

Hunt returns from Washington, D.C., with great news. The train ride out of Washington, D.C., has a shock in store for Hunt. Hunt's youngest brother, whom Hunt hasn't seen for nearly sixteen years, boards the train after spending the last three years in a Union Prison Camp. Being utterly destitute, H...

Hunt and his men are sent on various missions and end up in several shootouts. This volume is filled with action, suspense, and surprising events. Harold Vance, from the Chicago Academy, is sent to Denver to replace Bob Rolling, a U.S. Deputy Marshal who was killed on a recent mission. U.S. Deputy M...

Hunt and his men continue to clean the bad elements from the western plains while building the financial nest egg for the family. A lone assassin is hitting lone cowboys riding herd in remote areas. Hunt's men must find him and bring him to justice Hunt's men travel to the remote part of Colorado se...

Hunt has his hands full as he escorts Bella and Eduardo Ricardo to the Green River Ranch along with a bunch of ornery loggers. In this episode of Hunt's life, he has a man hell-bent on killing him, expanding his landholdings, and starting a new business. They finally get started logging, and Hunt wa...

This episode is packed with surprises and shootouts, starting when Hunt intervenes to protect his adopted daughter Phyllis from an abusive boy, earning the wrath of the boy's vengeful father. Amid a string of missions, Hunt puts a reluctant Horse in charge of one, which succeeds and leads to a memorable meeting with a frontier legend. A bigger threat looms when a gang terrorizing California and Oregon turns east, evading the Army and heading straight for Hunt's ranches and Denver itself. Hunt leads his men to intercept them, and a fierce gun battle leaves several deputies wounded and one ranch worker dead, with the Cavalry arriving just in time to prevent disaster. Later, Marshal Earl Jefferson visits to tour Hunt's Green River ranches, and while there, a bank robbery draws Hunt into another shootout, this one revealing a surprising motive behind the crime.

Hunt and his men keep fighting crime on the plains, though the work costs him one of his most experienced deputies in an ambush. Personal drama follows when Cal and Phyllis announce their engagement, sparking a confrontation with jealous rival Timmy Galloway, whom Hunt had already banned from coming around. Meanwhile, Beau Hamlin visits from New York to discuss selling his father's Green River ranch, but a trip there turns deadly when a ranch hand claims the land was promised to him instead. A visitor from Washington asks Hunt to help track down a mountain man serial killer responsible for over thirty gruesome murders marked by decapitation, grisly staging and worse.

New deputy marshal Ace Sterling returns from Chicago just in time to help bring order to a small Utah town overrun by a family of ruffians. Meanwhile, the Phillip-Armour Meat Packing House asks Hunt to source hogs and cattle to fill vital contracts running low on supply. On the way back from Green River, bandits rob the train Hunt and his men are riding, setting off consequences for a rancher's family that ripple further than expected. Amid the unexpected turns, Hunt crosses paths with the grandson of the man who once owned the land now known as Hidden Valley.

Hunt and his men keep tracking criminals while Hunt works to sort and deliver cattle from Meeker and oversees the start of hotel construction in Green River, hoping it's not a mistake. Men are sent on many missions, and one deputy is rushed to Denver with a gunshot wound, and Horse finds himself in an unexpected bind, forced to marry a woman to prevent bloodshed. Meanwhile, trespassers discover a gold vein on Hunt's Hidden Valley Ranch and hire an attorney to try to take the land from him.