A saloon owner challenges Sheriff Hollister to collect back taxes from a group of outlaws, occupying different hideouts far from the town of Tombstone. Hollister uses the services of gunslinger Curly Bill Brocius as his deputy and guide.
The Mayor of Tombstone collects a large reward for the capture of outlaw Frank Masters. Sheriff Clay Holllister captures Masters, who is seriously wounded, and must cope with two reward-hungry bounty hunters who are hot on his trail.
Cow herd boss Sam Brewster and his rowdy men arrive in Tombstone after months on the trail looking for a good time. Sheriff Clay Hollister asks them to temporarily give up their guns. But during an argument Brewster's son Tully is shot and killed by a saloon patron who was carrying a hidden weapon. Sam Brewster vows revenge for his son's death.
Cattle king and killer Hody Taylor and his men come to Tombstone looking for trouble. Sheriff Clay Hollister kills Hody in a gunfight. The people of Galeno, the town where Hody resided, believe that Hollister murdered Taylor and seek their own form of justice.
March 24, 1884 - Frenchman Raoul de Moreney and widow Carole Thayer arrive in Tombstone on the stage. He falls in love with Carole, who is the owner of the Soladad Mine. He challenges Harris to a duel and then eventually Clay fights him in a duel.
Jake Hoyt, a stranger in town, kills a gunman who is about to shoot Sheriff Clay Hollister in the back. But Hoyt has an ulterior motive for saving Hollister's life.
Two miners discover silver while they are burying a dead partner. The heirs of the dead man demand a cut of the treasure.
Sheriff Clay Hollister tries to arrest three wanted outlaws who just arrived in Tombstone. He is overpowered by the men, and is forced to accompany them across the desert to Senora, Mexico.
February 3, 1885 - An Apache, Tee-A-Hah, walks into Tombstone to kill Floyd Rank, who had killed his father on the streets of Tucson. Floyd and his brother, Karl, are buffalo skinners. Tee-A-Hah kills Floyd, and Karl wants revenge!
Nate Crandall murders a wealthy Mexican to rob him of a hugh sum. He finds too late that the money is in the hands of Sheriff Clay Hollister, who has deposited it in a safe. Crandall gets young Jim Edwards to aid him in robbery
December 9, 1882 - Jim Sten and his gang rob the stage on which Rev. Malcolm Tuttle is a passenger. Rev. Tuttle goes to Contention to preach at Jim Sten's gambling casino and starts a church in Contention. Rev. Tuttle hopes to save Jim Sten, who is his brother.
June 18, 1885 - Upon the death of his mother, teenage Jeff Sergeant arrives in Tombstone to live with his father. However, Clay is forced to kill his outlaw father, so Jeff vows revenge on Clay. Clay tries to help him by finding him a decent job and teaching him responsibility.
After serving time for killing a man, Frank Leslie comes back to Tombstone to marry the man's widow.
Clay Hollister and Harris Claibourne arrive in the tiny town of Osage to find it evacuated. While there they encounter a band of Rebel Raiders and hostile Indians.
When Neal Wheaton, a deputy sheriff, shoots a man, Clay Hollister believes he was too quick to use his gun and fires him. Weaton then gets a job as a guard in a saloon in town and soon gains a reputation as a fast gun. Hollister decides Weaton must leave Tombstone to avoid further killing.
August 2, 1882 - Mexican bandit, Augustine Ramirez and his gang rob the bank at Tombstone, killing the teller during their getaway. Hollister disguises himself as an outlaw so he can move freely through the border towns looking for his quarry.
April 28, 1889 - Lum Chen, a worker at the Can Can Restaurant in the Chinese Quarter, returns to Tombstone with his fiancé Mei Lon. Owner of the restaurant, Kwong Chee, initially accuses Lum of a robbery weeks earlier and tries to deal with the crime himself. Hollister steps in and both men refuse to talk about the matter. Soon after, two Chinese strangers arrive in town and Lum and Mei Lon disappear. Kwong identifies them as Hatchet Men of the Society, a group of Chinese assassins.
December 8, 1882 - Postmaster Clem Hawley is on a mail run when he's gunned down on the trail. When his buggy and team stampede back into Tombstone, Clay and his Deputy back track his trail and find Clem left for dead, but alive and unconscious. While out of town, the bank is robbed of the mine payroll of $15,000. Clay investigates and finds that the bank thieves were probably locals and they're still in town.
May 10, 1882 - Johnny Ringo is a popular character in Tombstone, even with Sheriff Hollister. When he loses everything in a friendly poker game, he draws his gun, takes his money and a watch and leaves the game. Witnessed by many people including the new Judge, a warrant is issued for his arrest. Clay must follow Johnny to Charleston, eight miles away, to bring him back to justice. Althought Clay does everything possible to help him, Johnny gets free and rides off into the desert followed by a posse led by Judge Reese.
June 4, 1885 - Cattle broker and former rustler, Kirk Stevens, is feeling the squeeze from Sheriff Hollister's campaign to stamp out rustling in the county. His partner Monty offers to run a newspaper in opposition to the Epitaph so they can influence public opinion against Hollister. The Bugle newspaper opens for business in Tombstone.
May 26, 1889 - Apache chief Geronimo is looking to resupply his raiding party's ammunition stocks and attacks an army supply train just north of Tombstone killing the small army guard detail. Wile Sheriff Hollister and his men search the county looking for Geronimo, he makes his way to town and hides out in a pool hall. Waiting for an illegal arms dealer to deliver his ammo, Geronimo is detected and Hollister is only steps away from an encounter with the chief.
July 9, 1886 - Running from Hollister's posse after robbing Tombstone's bank, Logan Beatty seeks refuge and medical attention for a gunshot wound at the Danbury homestead. There, he wins the affection of Danbury's daughter Kay who leaves her home for an exciting lifestyle with Logan. Hollister tracks them down to New Mexico where he tries to talk them back to returning to Tombstone. Life on the run isn't what Kay imagined, so she returns with Hollister and encourages Logan to follow.
March 27, 1882 - The town's people are angry that crime is escalating and criminals are being set free by the courts. Meanwhile, Mitt Porter and Billy Clyde kill a paymaster at the Tombstone Mine during a failed robbery attempt. Sheriff Hollister suspects the pair but has no proof. He sets a trap which leads him and his posse to a cabin where a shoot out occurs; Billy is killed and Mitt is wounded and arrested. In the hospital, Mitt's brother Dave wants him to break out and head with him to Texas. Fearing a conviction for murder, Mitt agrees.
While search for a break in the town's main waterline, Big Bill Hartley discovers a chunk of rich silver ore. He convinces an ambitious saloon girl to bankroll his mining operation and digs a shaft from an abandoned house to the pocket of silver that lies directly under Tombstone's main street. Just when Bill thinks he's struck in rich, the mine collapses, causing a girl riding on the street to be trapped inside the resulting sinkhole.
June 5, 1883 - A Mexican pack train is attacked at Skeleton Canyon. Four of the five Mexicans are killed with the survivor Don Jacinto Orosco calling for reinforcements to come to Tombstone to track down and kill the outlaws. Sheriff Hollister must persuade Orosco to let him deal with the problem in the hope of preventing an international incident.
May 10, 1885 - With the railway coming to town, the Beaumont brothers try to force a lessee cattleman off their property and frame Winnie Joe Westerby for poisoning his cattle herd. The Beaumont land is prime real estate and right in the path of the planned rail route. When Winnie Joe is found innocent and set free, the Beaumonts realize that Winnie Joe and his lawyer Frank Callaway may know too much and need to act fast to prevent Sheriff Hollister from finding the truth.
July 29, 1884 - Billy Denver comes to Tombstone and is billed at the Bird Cage Hotel as the "Fastest Gun In The World". Clay is concerned that there will be a dozen or more locals who would be glad to take him on. When Johnny Pearce and his brother Dick come to watch the show, Johnny believes that Billy is all show and is determined to go up against him.
May 10, 1881 - A religious sect decides to settle down five miles from Tombstone and Ben Ashdown, one of the young men, goes to work for Harris. However, Lige Crown and his friends want to drive them away from Tombstone. They plan to tar and feather Elder Elias Ransom.
June 19, 1882 - Outlaw Ed Mace is passing through Tombstone when he kills two men in a saloon, one of those being Clay Hollister's deputy. Mace leaves town headed for Durango where he intends to kill Doc Holliday. Mace is looking for revenge for his bother's death back in Texas. Sheriff Hollister, having been deputized as a US Marshal, goes after Mace and his gang.
Sept 2, 1885 - Con man George Camden and his sister Patricia arrive in Tombstone. Soon after getting off the stage, they visit an old friend and associate Aaron McCafin and take possession of his Double T ranch. George hatches a plan to invite Sheriff Hollister out for Sunday lunch, and while he's being entertained by Patricia, George slips into town and robs the bank.
Young troublemaker Billy Clanton makes a pass at Lisa Carew, getting into a fight with her father, who has promised Lisa to Johnny Coster. But Lisa, feeling stifled by her father and Johnny's tight-knit Cornish community, runs away from her home and comes to Clay for help.
Bill Doolin, a former outlaw recently released from prison, returns to Tombstone only to discover his wife has been kidnapped. She is being held prisoner by the family of a man about to go on trial for murder where the star witness will be Clay Hollister. They will only release her if Doolin kills Sheriff.
A pretty blonde arrives on the stage in Tombstone. Julie Dixon is traveling between towns working as a faro dealer while she tries to find her brother Sam, a gambler and a murderer. Sheriff Hollister is intrigued by the fact that she meets every incoming stagecoach. What the sheriff doesn't know is the real reason behind why Julie is so intent on finding Sam.
A disheveled escapee from Yuma prison breaks into the Epitaph office and at gunpoint, convinces Harris Claibourne to look into the court records of his murder conviction. Claiming his innocence, Vince Harper states that on the night of the murder his gun had been taken from him by a saloon girl named Laura Coleman, who seems to have disappeared soon after the trial. Arriving in town at the same time is the prison guard Captain, looking to take Harper back to prison dead or alive, preferably dead. Hollister doesn't care for the Captain's ethics and commences his own search for the wanted criminal.
Oct 13, 1886 - A wounded Mexican freedom fighter, Santiago is fleeing with his men "The Faceless Ones" through the town of Tombstone. Sheriff Clay Hollister permits the small group to resupply but insists they move out of the territory. Finding the fatally wounded Santiago and his men held up in a cave just outside town, Hollister agrees to bring Santiago's younger brother to him before he dies. What Hollister doesn't realize is that Santiago's brother is not who he seems to be.
August 12, 1886 - Former bank robber Sam Colby and his two partners intend to ambush and rob an army payroll wagon using a stolen Gatling gun. After setting their trap, Colby rides into Tombstone to purchase as much ammunition as he can and comes into contact with Harris Claibourne and his former fiancé Sarah Medford. Colby's violent actions bring him to the attention of Sheriff Clay Hollister who has serious concerns about Colby and the real reasons behind his visit.
July 16, 1885 - The Black Marshal of Deadwood, Marshal Daggett, arrives in Tombstone to settle down as a rancher. Sheriff Hollister is concerned that once word gets out that he's in town, criminals from his past will come to Tombstone seeking revenge. When Hollister finds out his gun hand has been crippled from a previous wound, he does all he can to keep Daggett safe.
June 9, 1888 - Clay Hollister arrests Milo Wade for murder in a border town and begins the return journey to Tombstone to take Wade back for trial. On the trail, Wade is freed by his young brother Seth and they leave Hollister for dead in the desert.
July 7, 1884 - A young Barton Clark Jr. comes to Tombstone to learn about life and takes a job with Clay Hollister as a jailer. When Hollister arrests Rose, wanted in Texas for cattle rustling and robbery, Barton falls for her charms and soon falls in love. Rose takes advantage of the situation and has Barton help her to escape by knocking the sheriff unconscious.
Bob Pickett, accused of murder in Tombstone escapes from the Red Rock jail before Clay Hollister can bring him back for trial. As fate would have it, Pickett saves Clay from an Apache Indian who was about to shoot him. The two men get along famously until Dempsey meets them on the trail and identifies Pickett as the man Clay was meant to arrest.
Clay spots Whit Purcell, arranger of murders, when he rides into Tombstone. He knows that Stu Regan, his hired gun, will soon follow and the two will conspire to draw an innocent man in a gunfight that the victim cannot win. Worse, Clay knows the two have never been convicted of a crime because their quarry has always been goaded into drawing first.
A dispatch case carrying $30,000 in payroll money is stolen from the Army officer serving as its courier. The Army suspects that the aging officer may have stolen the money to finance his retirement, but Clay isn't so sure - especially with three other likely suspects - a down-on-his-luck gambler, a woman living beyond her means and a storekeeper who claims to be crack shot, but can't hit a would-be thief at point blank range.
After a government-enforced truce and amnesty ends a murderous range-war, the hired killers employed by the factions are allowed the run of Tombstone knowing they can't be held accountable for their crimes. When one of the ranchers finds his son murdered just before the truce took affect, he is determined to exact his revenge no matter what the terms of the amnesty dictate.
Clay Hollister has to deal with a man who shot and killed an old miner in the back and stole his gold, as well as the man's cantankerous mother.
With an increase in the robbing and stabbing murders of miners, Hollister has to find those responsible. A stolen black diamond provides a clue.
On a quiet morning for Clay Hollister, Chris Anderson, a young man, enters the sheriff's office wanting help for being accused of a gold robbery in Brewster Flats.
Murderer Sam Carver escapes custody on a train to San Antonio and heads for Tombstone. Sheriff Hollister tracks him down at the Hendrick's ranch.
On a two day stagecoach ride to Laramie, Hollister, two men and a woman stop overnight at a hotel. Next day, one of the men kills the stagecoach driver to stop a warrant being delivered, but realizes his big mistake too late.
When the sheriff of Sunglow is murdered by Harvey Logan and his gang, the town finds itself under siege. Sheriff Hollister and Harris Claibourne ride out to bring the gang to justice and restore law and order.
Nancy Cooley arrives in Tombstone to visit her only surviving relative, her uncle C.J. Cooley of the Jackpot Mine. Sheriff Hollister volunteers to escort Nancy to see her uncle, but on arrival he's nowhere to be found. His partner Burt Foster is less than helpful, raising Clay's suspicions.
David Armbruster, a famous English journalist writing about America's violent West, tries to hire a gunslinger to face Sheriff Clay Hollister in a face-to-face gunfight so he can write an article about a shootout. Finding no takers, he tries to help a condemned criminal escape to accomplish the same thing.
Because of Tombstone's low water supply and inadequate fire fighting equipment, RC Tuttle starts a campaign to encourage residents to move to Benson. A resentful Howard Mansfield sets fire to his own Mercantile store to blame Tuttle.
With a long standing feud between the Caswells and the Harpers, and Jeff Harper arriving in Tombstone after 5 years in jail, Sam Caswell hires a gunfighter Chuck Ashley to deal with him. Harper's pride makes him want to face up to Ashley.
Hollister finds Anita Torison with stolen jewelry, and escorts her on a warrant to Tucson on the stagecoach. An incident at a way station en route raises his suspicions, and he has to find which passenger is her accomplice Boone Cahill.
Ferguson, President Chester Arthur's personal agent, and Elizabeth Blythe, a beautiful reporter, travel to Tombstone to report about the lawlessness that appears to be rampant in the boomtown. Both agent and reporter are captured by the notorious Chandler gang with Elizabeth being held hostage until Hollister releases Joe Chandler from his jail.
An ex-convict recently released from Yuma prison convinces a wheelwright shop owner to give him a chance when the man's assistant was found murdered under mysterious circumstances. He soon proves his worth with his tools and his fists and is given the job of delivering a mine owner's newly repaired buggy, just when the mine payroll is expected.
Local hardcase Jess Buckhorn tries to kill Little Hawk, whom he accuses of stealing the mission's horses. Sheriff Hollister insists that the Apache be held for trial, angering attorney Fred Griffin who leads a lynch mob to the Tombstone jail. While Harris Claibourne holds the mob at bay with his shotgun, Clay and his deputies slip Little Hawk out the back door and into the old Spanish mission. The Indian breaks out of the room where he's held prisoner, forcing Clay to track him into the nearby mountains where other Apache renegades roam.
Jay Pell, an Eastern journalist looking for stories about the Wild West, arranges for a stagecoach hold-up that turns deadly when outlaw Sam Crane guns down the shotgun guard. One killing wasn't enough for the story the reporter is determined to write, so Pell tries to prod Sheriff Hollister and Crane into confronting each other in a deadly gunfight.
Neer-do-well Ron Browning tries to pay for his own obituary in Harris' newspaper before the subject is even dead. When Harris refuses, Browning pulls a gun and attempts suicide but the newspaper editor manages to wrestle the pistol away before the young man can do himself harm. Clay learns that Ron didn't want to face his fiancée who wrote him that she would soon be arriving by stage and locks him in jail for self-protection. When a criminal in the next cell breaks jail, he forces Ron to join him as a hostage.
After an altercation with the Thomas brothers, Paul Hayden (a drifter coming to Tombstone), is given probation to work at the Epitaph under the custody of Claibourne. While courting Karen Thomas, he faces opposition from her brothers.
After Clay Hollister kills Wally Anson in self-defense, Flint Anson offers $10,000 reward for the first person to bring proof of the death of the man who 'murdered' his son. Marshall Jack Bolton assists Hollister to confront the father.
When Tom Beldon is shot and payroll money for the ranch is taken, Hollister makes a plaster caste of the killer's horse's hoof print, which clearly shows a missing nail. Enquiries with blacksmith Todd Gantry enable him to find the killer.
At the hanging of Reed Barker, the rope breaks and he survives. The judge says that since the rope wasn't criminally tampered with, Barker is absolved of all crimes he was charged with. Hollister has to determine how the rope broke.
A mine collapse kills yet another man, but Anson Gurney sends his workers back inside to dig another shaft. When Claibourne uses the Epitaph to try to improve safety at the mines, Gurney has plans of his own to ruin him and his business.
Hiding in a stable, Adam Kirby witnesses the murder of a man who wanted a refund after buying stolen cattle. Hollister takes Kirby to Charleston to identify the killer, but he is too afraid to say anything, until the truth finally emerges.
Kyle Dodge is escorted by a Marshall to Yuma prison. Both arrive in Tombstone wounded from ambush. Hollister is suspicious that a number of strangers in town may be part of Dodge's gang and has to use his wits to keep Dodge in custody.
After a gang robs the saloon, the leader kills two of his men and flees Tombstone. A fake headline in the Epitaph stating one man is recovering leads to Claibourne kidnapped as hostage for the outlaw's release, but Hollister is too smart.
On his way to meet his friend Sam Barrett, a newspaperman from Denver, Claibourne witnesses Vic Reel kill him. In his efforts to uncover the motive for the murder, Hollister succeeds in the capture of the Taylor gang.
Bert Magraw arrives from Denver with his new young bride Jeannie. Hollister has to deal with Vince Sanders, who wants to kill Magraw. Some investigation into Jeannie's past leaves Hollister suspicious of her collusion with Sanders.
Renee Carter is convicted of armed robbery and assault and taken to Yuma prison. The victim later dies, but Hollister believes that she is taking the rap for her beloved Frank Fallon, and so he plans to see that justice prevails.
Congress Mine owner Big Jim Gerson infers in the Epitaph that a slump in the ore output is due to mine manager Feeny Spindler. Newly arrived lawyer Gay Monahan represents Spindler after he is accused of murder at the Tombstone Ice Company.
Hollister suspects Lily Murdoch, who runs the Lucky Claim Saloon, is involved in several silver miner killings and disappearances. Hollister avoids attempts to end his investigation and devises a clever but risky plan to trap her.
Quartz Hill Marshall Vern Fawcett takes Bray Holcomb into custody and kills him when he tries to escape. Fawcett quits his job and moves to Tombstone. Hollister sends him to Tucson and has to deal with the vengeful Holcombs.
Sam Hoskins takes a nurse and the critically wounded Eddie Casper from the Tombstone Hospital to Galeyville, a town occupied by the lawless. Using a clever message from the educated nurse, Hollister is determined to resolve the situation.
John Whittaker places ads with hidden codes in the Epitaph, telling his gang where and when to rob the Argus mine shipments.
Liz Dolthan persuades Sam Wade to place her jewelry overnight in the Wells Fargo safe, and remembers the combination as she watches him open it. Hollister's sharp mind and keen observations help him solve the subsequent $20,000 theft.
Jonas Bell is killed in a scuffle with Hollister after a bank clerk murder and robbery. Siblings Noah and Lady Bell conspire to avenge their father, and Lady finds work in Tombstone. Hollister's kindness to her leaves her in a quandary.
John Edwards prevents the hanging of his brother Sam with the threat of dynamite and by taking Claibourne as hostage. Hollister swaps clothes with his deputy in order to capture the brothers and save Claibourne in an old mine tunnel.
A stagecoach driver and agent are dead and Governor Armstrong, who is coming to Tombstone to inspect a new heliograph system of communication, is missing. Hollister risks his life to save him from a kidnapping by Frank Banter and his gang.
Hope Jensen returns a bag of stolen money from her barn, which her husband Dan is forced to hide by Ben Jensen and his gang, to Sheriff Hollister. Hollister is kidnapped and forced to write a note for the return of the money.
Belle Reed comes to Tombstone for protection from Ben Quaid, who sets off an explosion to lure Hollister out of town. Belle is shot by Quaid and, unknown to him, she dies. Belle's sister Gwen then poses as Belle to trap Quaid in Mexico.
Returning to Tombstone, Hollister is captured near the Lucky Mule Mine by three escaped convicts from Yuma prison, who are trying to decide who is going to kill him. He has to be sharp-witted to stay alive with no guns and his hands tied.
Hollister learns that Tom Holden, an escaped convict, is innocent of his crime, given new evidence. He sets out for the foothills of the Mule Mountains and teams with Sheriff Eli Parsons and deputy McQueen to take Holden for a re-trial.
Lola Curtis kills a hotel clerk when he bends to pick up a dropped purse, but Hollister suspects a tall man by the downward bullet angle. After a second murder, an insurance investigator assists Hollister find the so-called Siesta Killer.
October 20, 1883 - Territorial Governor Armstrong arrives in Tombstone just ahead of Kansas Joe Barton, who has been released from Yuma Prison and has sworn to kill him. However, Lt. Governor Owens is actually the man who's trying to assassinate the Governor. Clay knows that Kansas Joe Barton is innocent of the written threat on the Governor's life because Kansas Joe never learned to read and write.
After a bank robbery Hollister pursues and captures a wounded Lafe Jackson in the desert, who kills both his and Hollister's horse. With a 20 mile hot walk back to Tombstone, Jackson expects his gang to catch up and deal with the Sheriff.
During truce talks between and the Army and Geronimo, his chief warrior Manatou stages attacks on innocents, and so the peace talks are in jeopardy. Hollister uses a specially equipped stagecoach to trap Manatou.
Claibourne believes that the wanted outlaw Nate Storm has been living in Tombstone under an assumed name. Hollister gets clues from a strange poker result and a spur taken in a mugging. Two residents become the prime suspects.
Hollister goes to the Travers ranch in Tucson, convalescing after an injury to his hand. Ed Keel is out for revenge after Hollister's part in the hanging of his brother Willy, particularly since Clay is injured and not wearing his badge.
After a bank robbery in Tombstone, the Burnett brothers are hidden by Will and Viola Gunther in a barn cellar at their ranch. However, a love interest between Viola and Horn Burnett leads to a confrontation with Hollister and Will.
Hollister assumes the identity of the jailed Burt Taggert to try to stop Juan Diego attacking Tombstone, since Taggert has links with Diego to supply dynamite and they have never met. He uses confiscated items to pose as Taggert.