Gunslinger

Fort Scott offers a reward for Mexican bandit Manuel Garcia, who kidnaps Amby and asks for ransom equal to what Fort Scott is offering.

The shifting Rio Grande around an island leaves ambiguity as to what nation — the US or Mexico — has authority. The lawless take advantage and stay.

Missing Confederate silver puts Cord on the trail.

The Army sends Cord and McGuire to investigate a case of mass death-by-drowning.

Cord is assigned to accompany Jed Spangler, who has just been released from Yuma prison. The authorities hope Jed will try to recover the loot he stole during the Civil War. Cord wants payback for a friend Jed killed.

A patrol led by Murdock is ambushed and several are slain under murky circumstances. Cord decides to investigate.

After killing a Native American leader, a young Navajo woman refuses to defend herself.

After the war, a group of Southern women attempt to establish a cotton plantation in the Arizona Territory.