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Charles plans to race the horses once again to test their stamina. Charles hires Eric Stafford, and he proves vital to the breeding and production of quality horses. Charles helps Darren solve the problem of rail construction jobs. Bernard is not doing well with the Philadelphia Inn and asks Charles for advice. Charles takes the family out to eat in San Francisco at a fine restaurant and is disappointed, so he decides San Francisco needs a first class hotel and a marvelous restaurant. Ghost and Cassandra’s relationship expands to the point that Cassandra’s mother files a warrant for Ghost’s arrest and trouble ensues.

The next episode of Storm Warrior involves growth, problem-solving, and love. Ghost develops a relationship with Cassandra under her mother’s watchful eye. Problems develop in Vallejo. Charles is angry with the slow progress of construction and has harsh words with Bud Bulger. A problem with the Indians regarding the railroad must be addressed in Idaho. Charles takes his two best horses to New Orleans to test their stamina and speed. The Civil War ends, but much anger still prevails in the southern states towards northerners.

Charles is devastated when he learns of the death of a loved one. Reluctantly, Bud Bulger and one of his engineers travel to England with Charles and Ghost to understand how Charles wants his new winery constructed. Charles arranges to have excess grapevines and fruit trees shipped to America and then transported to California. Upon returning to America, Charles is suspected of smuggling heroin and is held while his crates are examined. Ghost has a vision of the future and is shocked to meet a girl he had seen in it. However, the girl's mother doesn’t want her daughter to have anything to do with an Indian.

The civil war battles continue. Charles is disturbed when he hears of the number of men killed and missing, he spends much time at home with the children and prays daily for his son’s safe return. A few new construction jobs are offered, but Charles can’t get his mind into the business. All he can think of is Ghost. Ghost’s company returns to Harrisburg and is disbanded. Not willing to leave the army, he reenlists with another regiment, the 16th Cavalry Regiment, headed by Colonel John Irvin Greg. Ghost finds himself in imminent danger when their lines are overrun with Confederates near a place known as Gettysburg.

Charles and Ghost build a relationship, and Charles takes him on many trips so Ghost learns how to work with others, and understand how the businesses operate. Trouble in the new Chicago to New York track job forces Charles to investigate and Ghost travels with him to see how his father settles an explosive situation. Disturbing news of a small wagon train massacre leaves Charles worried that the Sioux could be in danger. Abraham Lincoln has been elected president and the south is threatening to withdraw from the Union. Fort Sumter in South Carolina is bombarded by Confederate Soldiers. Charles is devastated when he learns that his son has run away from home to join the army.

This adventure takes Charles back in time when a warrior he knew as a young brave arrives in Denver, seeking his help with troubling news. Unsure but willing to try, Charles must travel north to the Sioux Valley, with Gray Wolf and Swimming Otter insisting on riding along. Torn between pressing problems at home and the warrior's urgent plea to prevent war, Charles turns to prayer for an answer.

Packed with action, business, and courtroom drama, this episode finds Charles tackling old business, including The Ponderosa restaurant. In Denver, he resolves construction crew issues, then is recruited to help Hunt drive bandits off his seized ranch, and grows fed up with horse breeders demanding stud rights through unreasonable contracts, eventually banning several for good. With George running the food store, Charles looks for a new travel companion and is shocked by an offer from an old friend. He heads to Baltimore to confront a powerful man threatening the railroad, but on the way, bandits after his horse, Wind Fire, ambush his train. After surviving an attack at sea only 6 weeks earlier, Charles's fury explodes into a shootout, but his gun runs empty mid-fight.

Charles returns home from a tiring trip to Denver and receives a troubling letter from England. Charles needs to travel to England, but Judith doesn’t want to take the children, so she resolves to stay home, even though she knows that Charles will be gone for weeks. After setting things right in England, Charles returns to America. Three days into their voyage back the ship is attacked by a Spanish warship.

Back in Philadelphia, Charles is flooded with offers for Warrior's stud services and pressured by a renowned trainer to either keep racing him or hand him over, and he ultimately agrees to send the stallion to Virginia to train for Saratoga's famous race. Charles then travels to the Illinois-Wisconsin border, where a gunman has wounded one of his workers, and deals with trouble at a hotel bar, where Bernard was beaten defending his business. Amid mounting obstacles, Charles visits U.S. Marshal headquarters in Chicago and meets Marshal Bekins.

Charles hires men to run his new farm and food store, but one hire, a sullen loner, forces Charles to reflect on his own attitude, leading to a surprising turnaround during their trip to Utah. There, he also finds the ideal man to oversee the entire agriculture operation and settles a potentially dangerous dispute between towns feuding over the railroad's route. Back in Denver, old nemesis Fergus Atwood arrives with a court order to claim Charles's prize stallion, sparking a legal battle and testing Charles's temper until Hunt steps in. Between livestock-hunting trips that steadily build up his farm, Charles spots news of a big horse race in New Orleans and decides to pit his stallion against the best - an adventure that wins him both new friends and dangerous enemies.

Charles returns home to find some railroad workers have quit, prompting a trip to Boston to check on Conner, recruit new men, and attend a slave auction. He searches for the inventor of an artificial ice machine and reconnects with Captain Blanchard, summoned to Washington D.C. over Colonial Hawks's death. A rival threatens Charles's life over stolen railroad contracts, but the conflict resolves in an unexpected way. Charles stays busy shipping equipment for his store, ranches, and farm in Denver while hunting for top-grade livestock. Meanwhile, Judith's mother suffers a near-fatal seizure and fall, and Judith fights to save her. Then a stranger arrives demanding to buy Charles's prize stallion, Warrior, and when Charles refuses, the man accuses him of horse theft, dragging him into a legal battle.

This episode of Storm Warrior is a twist of health crises, birth, danger, prejudice, hard-won growth and an angry neighbor. When Charles's head wound becomes infected, he, George and Judith rush to New Orleans, where doctors save his life as Judith gives birth. His recovery is slow, leaving a six-week memory gap. Back in Denver, Charles sets his sights on new land, including the site of his bushwhacking, and a Kansas City trip yields a surprising discovery. With Darren, he launches a massive construction project, but hiring 1,000 workers he needs to compete off the street proves difficult: white laborers' hatred toward Black and Chinese workers threatens to derail it all, forcing Charles to confront a conflict he must overcome or fail.