While traveling back to North Fork on the stage after selling their herd, Lucas and Mark are sharing the stage with a Marshal and his prisoner Johnny Cotton.<br><br>Lucas McCain and his son Mark come across U.S. Deputy Marshal Sam Buckhart who is escorting an Indian prisoner. To Lucas surprise he finds that Buckhart .<br>Lucas loses a calf and suspects a neighbors foreman. As its already been branded, hes threatened with rustling if he uses a rope. McCain has another way of .
