01. Incident of the Red Wind
Favor tells Rowdy to let Lou Bowdart drive the herd up the San Marcos trail.
02. Incident of Iron Bull
Joseph a Comanche is hired after returning the remuda. Colonel Macklin and Sargeant Graogan are accompanting the herd as far as Waycross.
03. Incident at El Crucero
Rose Cornelius and her ten brothers have fenced off the trail Favor needs to cross to get the herd to water.
04. Incident of the Travellin' Man
Jagger is fished out of the river with leg irons on. His story doesn't match that of Matt Harger.
05. Incident at Paradise
Rowdy rescues nester Higgins from being used for target practice and gets involved in his fight to stay on his farm.
06. Incident at Farragut Pass
In return for crossing her land to water, E.J. Farragut wants Favor to hire her grandson Billy.
07. Incident at Two Graves
Wish volunteers Rowdy to fight Jeremiah O'Neal for money. O'Neal gives the fight away and Rowdy wins $50. The losers are ready to tar and feather O'Neal. Rowdy helps him escape. O'Neal has a cross made by the indians for the Spaniards. He speaks of a lost mine.
08. Incident of the Rawhiders
While scouting Rowdy stumbles on rawhiders. After Rowdy refuses to kill Brock in a fight, the leader forces Brock to give Rowdy his intended bride in return for his life. Rowdy is allowed to escape leading the rawhiders to the herd.
09. Incident of the Prophecy
The drovers have a Saturday off for the first time in a long time. To wake up the dead town. Rowdy and his friend Rabbit shoot at a schoolhouse bell. A bullet ricochets and kills Jud Hilton. His brother, Brother William, a tetched self proclaimed minister, puts a curse on them and say they can't outrun death.
10. Incident at Confidence Creek
Elwood P. Gilroy and his assistant Crystal Simpson steal the ownership papers for the herd, and sell the herd to Orville Tippet at a large loss. Elwood ditches Crystal. Rowdy and Crystal follow Elwood to bring him back to justice.
11. Incident of the Death Dancer
Carlock has been tracking an African lion for four years. Favor hires him to get the lion. Mushy wants to be a hunter.
12. Incident of the Wild Deuces
When Mushy wins $1500 at Lorelei's Trailbalazer playing seven card stud deuces wild his troubles begin.
13. Incident of the Geisha
After Rowdy tells Hey Soos to let a wild stallion go, Hey Soos tries to saddle it again. It bolts knocking Rowdy down and injuring his back. The remuda is stampeded. Out collecting the horses Hey Soos sees the stallion. He tries to lasso it. He is knocked of his horse by a limb and rolls down a hill into a stream. He awakes with his clothes drying overhead. He is in a kimona and a geisha kneels nearby.
14. Incident at Ten Trees
The drovers find a young white woman dressed as an indian, babbling.
15. Incident of the Rusty Shotgun
Three brothers think Wish is their sister's intended.
16. Incident of the Midnight Cave
Wish nearly falls off the high trail and awakes blind.
17. Incident of the Dowry Dundee
Rowdy and Quince come across a wee lass, with for huge bulls and a wagon of heirlooms.
18. Incident at Gila Flats
While helping the Army deliver cattle to an Apache tribe, Favor, Wishbone and Quince run into a band of renegade Indians determined to stop them.
19. Incident of the Pied Piper
After a tornado scatters the herd, they are a 100 head short. They learn a man running an orphanage sold them to the local banker. Realizing the banker is the guilty party, Favor decides to teach him a lesson and recover some of his money.
20. Incident of the Swindler
An old ""friend"" of Wish's tells him he is a wanted man for a murder in New Orleans thirteen years ago.
21. Incident of the Wanderer
Michob, a peddler, comes out of a rain storm, bone dry. Things begin to go wrong and he is labeled a jinx.
22. Incident at Zebulon
Favor goes to Zebulon, Johnny Larkin is taken by a group of masked riders and charged with a woman's death. When Favor is horse whipped he is determined to find out the identity of the major, the head of the regulator.
23. Incident at Hourglass
The herd needs to get through Hourglass pass where the army is preparing to blast for a dam. Favor's hometown friend is married to the Post Adjutant. When she kills an officer, she lies to get Favor convicted of the murder.
24. Incident at the Odyssey
Favor is pushing hard to outrun hoof and mouth disease just as he had seven years earlier. Pan an ex-circus performer searches for a lady he heard singing eleven years earlier.
25. Incident of the Banker
An old friend of Favor's, a banker, backs him into a corner and is allowed to take over as trail boss, while Favor runs his bank.
26. Incident at Deadhorse (1)
The town's richest and most popular man is convicted and sentenced to be hung for the revenge murder of his son's killer. He is undaunted by this because he is counting on no one in town be willing to act as executioner.
27. Incident at Deadhorse (2)
When Wishbone and Mushy realize Hannibal is not safe they try to help. They are brought back tied up while Hannibal is tarred and feathered. Hannibal returns to Deadhorse and the men want to help him against Favor's better judgment.
28. Incident of the Gilded Goddess
Rowdy's old acquaintance, Louise Temple is on the run for killing a sheriff. She ran the Temple Of Gold gambling hall.
29. Incident at Seven Fingers
Sam Turner steals Rowdy's horse. Sam is an escapee from the army guardhouse, charges with breaking and running in the face of fire. Rowdy's horse goes lame. Rowdy catches Sam and offers him a job. Captain Coulter and his men rush into camp and arrests Sam. Favor says things don't add up and comes to his defense.
30. Incident of the Peyote Cup
Hey Soos is captured by a small secretive tribe of Indians, and forced to drink peyote liquid. An indian girl helps him escape. The new drover, Mister Brothers was a missionary and tried to convert this tribe. They came to believe if they crucified white men they dead ancestors would come back to life.