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- Billy introduces Pat to his current girlfriend and her father, Ben Wiley. Pat thinks he recognizes the man as the informer who ruined his attempt break out of a Confederate prisoner of war camp during the Civil War resulting in the death of one of Pat's men.
- Billy and Denver, another high-spirited youth, are thrown out of Lincoln for their perpetual brawling. They decide to settle their score by meeting for a shootout in a remote mountainous area and Pat Garrett threatens to hang the one who returns if the other man dies. During their maneuvers Denver breaks his leg and while trying to nurse his fellow combatant back to health, Billy discovers how much the two men have in common.
- Billy hops a freight train when his horse dies far from civilization. Unfortunately, it's the same train on which a federal marshal investigating the shipment of contraband rifle is found murdered. Billy is framed for the crime by a crooked sheriff who is involved in shipping illegal liquor throughout the Southwest.
- Francisco and Morton, his landlord, get into an argument over the back rent that the tenant farmer owes. In the ensuing scuffle, Francisco accidentally kills the landlord and, to make matters worse, severely injures Morton's young daughter, the only witness, when the farmer flees the house. Unable to speak, the young girl can only identify the tenant as her father's shooter.
- A wild bunch of cowboys ride into Lincoln, vowing to blow the town wide open. Because of a tragedy, Pat Garrett has turned in his badge. Can Billy convince Pat of his duty in time?
- Garrett plans for a pleasant visit with his girlfriend are dashed when he finds her house in flames and her father dead. Rancher Neal Bailey claims to own the land and is within his rights to burn out squatters. In the ensuing argument, Garrett shoots the rancher and Bailey swears revenge, deciding to carry it out on Garrett's wedding day.
- Trying to stay out of trouble, Billy accepts a new job as a shotgun guard for a stagecoach line. What seemed like a peaceful job quickly turns violent when his stagecoach is held up by two outlaws resulting in a murdered driver and a stolen strongbox. Billy guns down one crook and manages to recover the money, but buries the loot in hopes of luring the other criminal out of hiding.
- John Miller, an ex-lawman bent on taking over Lincoln County frames Garrett and Billy the Kid for cattle rustling by mixing animals from his herd with those that Pat and Billy were driving to market. To make the evidence completely convincing, Miller pays a saloon girl to plant evidence on Pat and lie under oath during the pre-trail hearing and then murders her so she can't recant her testimony.
- Pat Garrett, Lincoln County's newest deputy sheriff, rides into a gold mining boomtown and discovers the town, including its marshal, are owned by a crooked saloon owner who can literally get away with murder. When Garrett refuses to be bribed, the saloon owner tries to hire Billy the Kid to murder the lawman, not realizing the two men are close friends.
- During a murderous stagecoach robbery, Kate Elder pulls the mask off the robber and recognizes the culprit, but, when questioned by Sheriff Pat Garrett, denies ever having seen the man before. When Doc Holliday refuses to take Kate back into his life, the spurned lover testifies that Doc was the man who robbed the stage and killed the shotgun guard. Billy Bonney knows Kate was lying since he played poker all night with Holliday, but Pat refuses to believe him.
- A cattle dealer, Vince Ober, has won a contract to supply beef to the army forts in New Mexico. Ober plans to increase his profit margin by stealing as many animals as possible and tries to convince Billy Bonney to lead a gang of rustlers. When Billy refuses, Ober hires gunmen to kill him.
- Pat enters a shooting contest whose prize is a valuable Winchester '73 rifle and wins the competition. In front of witnesses Billy Bonney jokingly tells Pat that if he won't sell him the gun, he'll steal it. When the gunsmith is killed and the rifle stolen from the man's shop, the townspeople assume Billy is the guilty of both crimes.
- Sheriff Pat Garrett tries to calm Billy the Kid's wild ways by introducing him to John Leslie, one of Lincoln's newest citizens - a retired gunfighter and ex-convict who was recently hired as the town's minister. The preacher's new career may be short-lived, since the family of one of the men he killed arrive in Lincoln seeking revenge and Leslie refuses to defend himself.
- A meek middle-aged man walks into Garrett's office and demands to be arrested for robbery and provides a carpetbag full of money as evidence. He tells Garrett that he stole the money from a crooked politician in St. Louis and agrees to testify against him if the lawman will protect him on the return to Missouri since he's convinced that gunmen have been hired to kill him. The sheriff is reluctant to believe his prisoner's wild tale until he receives a telegram collaborating the theft and a notorious killer for hire appears on the streets of Lincoln.
- Pat finds Ed Corbin and his wife were murdered and their servant girl, Agatha hiding in the barn scared out of her wits. She claims a monster was trying to kill her and the Corbins got in his way. While checking the Corbin ranch for clues, Garrett discovers a fresh footprint made by an enormous boot.
- On his death bed, a wealthy rancher asks Pat to help him find his long-lost son who left Lincoln County with his mother when he was eight years old. A series of impostors answer Pat's posters, but only one can answer Pat's questions and has the proper scar he received from a branding iron years earlier. Everyone is pleased until Billy bumps into the young man and remembers him using a different name when the two men were drinking heavily in an El Paso saloon.
- Billy's employer, John Tundall, becomes enraged when he meets the con-man who stole his wife and $10,000 dollars from him eight years earlier. The crook is in town to steal even more money from the cattle baron and plans to use Tundall's ex-wife as bait. Meanwhile, Pat and Billy plot to force the con-man and his wife to leave Lincoln for good.
- Billy and Pat find an Apache tied to an anthill and rescue him. Billy feels the Indian is a kindred spirit and tries to befriend him, going so far as to get the man a job sweeping floors in a saloon. The Apache soon learns that the townspeople don't like him any better than the Indians who tried to kill him.
- Beautfiul blonde Nita Jardine arrives in Lincoln and tries to convince Pat and Billy that her estranged husband, a former convict recently released from prison, is following her and plans to kill her the next time they meet. Billy is willing to defend the damsel in distress, but Pat learns Nita's story doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
- Billy covets a handsome pair of boots in a shop window. A friend offers to buy him the boots with but one string attached - Billy must help him drive a herd of stolen cattle to market. Before Billy can decide, the owner of the cattle and his cowboys capture the pair and decide to lynch both men.
- Jacques Montreaux, a showman with four beautiful performers arrives to perform at the local opera house. He reports to Garrett that in a dressing room at another theater, he found a letter from a woman begging her daughter not to carry through her plan to murder Billy Bonney. Billy laughs the threat off as a joke, but Garrett investigates and discovers that all of the women in the troupe have something to hide.
- Billy receives a letter from an old prospector whom he staked to a month's digging money stating he might have found a lost Spanish mine near San Miguel, a ghost town in southern New Mexico. Along the way he meets two other investors who received an identical letter. Instead of finding an old friend, the trio meet a judge bent on correcting the supposed errors of juries that found the three defendants innocent in murder trials the jurist presided over. Convinced of their guilt, the judge demands a reckoning.
- Garrett must take Dan Rees, a convicted felon, to the New Mexico Territorial prison in Tularosa to spend ten years in prison. Friends of the man Rees killed don't believe the punishment the jury handed out was harsh enough and plan to carry out heir own brand of justice during the train ride.
- Pat Garrett is wounded trying to prevent an express office robbery. His new deputy finds evidence that the shooter was his close friend, Billy the Kid. Billy swears he's innocent of the crime and flees the posse sent to arrest him so he can find the men who are trying to frame him for the crime.
- Garrett rides into a boomtown that a railroad considers their personal fiefdom. Not only does the company run crooked gambling houses to keep their workers broke, but they refuse to pay their taxes or even for the cattle their company has purchased. Garrett enlists Billy Bonney in his campaign to make the railroad see its civic duty.
- Jack rides into Silver Creek, a boomtown in Lincoln County, to investigate reports of lawlessness and finds Jason Creary has set himself up as the town boss who owns everything but Sal's saloon which he plans to get control of if Sal won't marry him. Meanwhile, the women's temperance movement has organized and plans to shut down all of Creary's saloons.
- A young Mexican woman arrives in Pat Garrett's office with a centuries old document that appears to be a Spanish land grant which gives her family title to half the land in Lincoln County. Garrett can't believe that the document is the genuine article, but after consulting with experts in the territorial capital in Santa Fe is forced to concede it's legitimacy and makes plans to evict the county's erstwhile property owners.
- Lincoln population swells when an Apache uprising closes the roads leading out of town. With the town's hotel and boarding house filled beyond their capacities, the civic-minded Garrett agrees to allow his jail cells to be used temporarily by stagecoach passengers who trapped by the Indians' depredations. Pat soon regrets his actions when the passengers turn out to be mail-order brides impatient to meet their new husbands.
- Billy Bonney meets an old friend, Skip Farrell, who once saved his life. Farrell is on the run from a posse and Billy decides to repay the debt by helping him escape.
- When Pat Garrett kills Johnny Nagel after a botched general store robbery, the young man's father doesn't blame the lanky lawman for his son's death - instead he blames Billy the Kid whom he saw talking to Johnny earlier in the day. Karl threatens to blast Pat with his shotgun if Billy doesn't come to the jail unarmed.
- Billy rides to Gunsight to collect money for cattle delivered to the ranch of Judge Roy A. Barlow. Barlow fancies himself 'The Law North of Lincoln' and throws Billy in jail for being drunk in disorderly immediately after taking possession of the bill of sale and stealing Billy's bankroll. Garrett comes searching for Billy and learns from the town drunk that Judge Barlow murdered the surveyor who discovered that Gunsight is actually within the Lincoln County limits and, as a result, within the sheriff's jurisdiction.
- Hendry Grant, a notorious shootist, rides into Lincoln and challenges Billy Bonney to a gunfight to raise his reputation as a gunfighter. When Billy refuses to meet him, Grant goads one of Billy's friends into a gunfight and kills the young man.
- A young doctor arrives in town to take over the practice of a beloved physician who recently died. Although his skills are marvelous and his knowledge prodigious, his poor bedside manner quickly alienates the townsfolk who he was hired to treat. His future rests on his ability to save a pregnant young woman who tried to commit suicide when she was deserted by her husband.
- Pat receives a telegram that Jack Barron, the leader of an outlaw gang comprised mostly of men who rode with Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War, is heading to Lincoln to avenge himself upon Billy Bonney for killing one of his men when he tried to rustle some cattle. The townspeople fear that Barron's gang will raze the town if they don't turn Billy over to them, but Garrett deputizes the Kid instead.
- Sheriff Garrett has his hands full when a gang of horse thieves starts operating in Lincoln County. He learns to his chagrin that the crooks are a pair of pretty, but devious, blondes, but is somewhat mollified when his friend Billy Bonney is victimized by their charms, as well.
- When an outlaw kidnaps Lincoln's popular Catholic priest, Pat tries to organize a posse to free the padre and capture the criminal. Meanwhile, Billy decides the best way to prevent the priest from coming to harm is to pay the ransom the abductor demands, so he steals the needed funds from the town's only bank.
- Billy learns that his stepfather, Bill Antrim, was ambushed and murdered by three hired killers. Billy Bonney decides to take the law into his own hands when the men flee across the Lincoln County line and out of Sheriff Pat Garrett's territory despite the lawman's warning to let the sheriff's in adjacent jurisdictions arrest the perpetrators.
- Bonney's girlfriend is murdered by ranchers who mistook the senorita for Billy. Garrett, joined by Billy, chase the two men into Mexico where the murderers shoot two young Yaqui Indians and steal their horses. While Pat and Billy close the distance on their quarries, the Indians pursue the lawman and gunslinger believing that they attacked their fellow tribesmen.
- Over the objections of Pat Garrett and the boy's father, Billy Bonney tries to teach the son of an alcoholic ex-lawman some of the gunslinger's craft that he's learned over the years. When the youngster is wounded in a gunfight that he provoked, the boy's father goes gunning for Billy.
- Garrett is ordered by Governor Lew Wallace to provide every assistance to a small cavalry patrol attempting to negotiate the surrender of a renegade band of Apaches. Neither Pat nor Billy Bonney, who has been hired as a scout, believe that the officer leading the patrol, a stern martinet, is the man for the job.
- Garrett interrupts a gang of bank robbers who were attempting to break into the bank's safe and is forced to shoot one of the three thieves. While the outlaw is having his wounds tended to, a man staggers into the doctor's office suffering from symptoms of the bubonic plague. For the town's safety, the physician asks Garrett and the outlaw to remain in his home under quarantine.
- Billy is framed for murder by his old nemesis, Bob Tollinger, who is now the sheriff of a neighboring county. Joining him on the trip to his date with the gallows is a pretty female prisoner, Anne Drake, also falsely convicted of murder. Billy and Annie manage to escape, but must flee the pursuing posse while manacled to one another.
- While visiting El Paso on vacation, Pat Garrett finds himself in a high-stakes poker game and takes a young farmer to the cleaners. The man's wife convinces Pat to return his winnings because the young man can't pay his other debts. Only later does Pat discover that the farmer wasn't married and the pretty blonde was a clever con artist. With Billy's help, Pat tries to beat her at her own game.
- When a vengeful father sees Billy Bonney with a necklace that belonged to his runaway daughter, he accuses the gunslinger of murdering the teenager. Billy had received the jewelry as a gift from the young woman for treating her wounds when she was injured in a rockslide, but now he must find the girl to prove himself innocent. If he does find the girl, her father plans to beat her within an inch of her life for being disobedient.
- Concerned about the prospect of an Indian war with the Mescallero Apaches, Governor Lew Wallace asks Pat to investigate reports that a French foreign agent may be providing guns to the Apaches. The United States government fears that a European power may be stirring up trouble as a diversion to hide their true objective - the reoccupation of Mexico.
- A wealthy young man arrives in Lincoln seeking a guide for his hunting expedition. He convinces Billy Bonney to lead him into the wilderness in order to bag a mountain lion for his collection. Once in the wilderness he informs his guide that his real quarry is Billy himself.
- A block of marble meant for a Lincoln businessman's tombstone is stolen from a stone cutter's shop and Garrett suspects Billy Bonney of the theft, though he can't prove it because he can't find the slab. Billy took the tombstone for the most honorable of reasons - to mark the grave of a pulper's widow.
- While trying to ride a bucking bronco, Billy is thrown violently off the horse's back and smashes his head against a wooden post. Taken to Lincoln for medical examination, the doctor decides that Billy has a concussion and prescribes medicine to keep him unconscious for at least twelve hours. The medication has the opposite effect on Billy - worse, he barricades himself in the cantina, believing everyone in town is conspiring to hang him.
- When Billy Bonney falls in love with Maria, the pretty daughter of a Mexican-American sheepherder, he finds himself in the middle of a quarrel between the Lincoln County ranchers and the shepherds who are flocking to the territory because of its abundant grass.
- Lt. Baxter brings Pat evidence that whiskey has been found on the local Apache reservation and demands that the sheriff put an end to the trade. When Garrett discovers a still on Pa McBean's rundown ranch and finds a crate of liquor hidden in Billy Bonney's wagon, he arrests the two men. McBean's tomboy daughters, the real culprits, decide to break Billy and their father out of jail.
- Garrett is traveling through Mexico with a prisoner bound for trial in Lincoln. An impending storm forces the pair to take shelter in a small poverty-stricken pueblo where the seemingly friendly villagers offer to them hospitality. It soon becomes apparent that the townspeople expect to be well-compensated for their help.
- Billy thrashes Sledge when the brutal wagon driver tries to lash a young Mexican boy with a bullwhip. When Garrett learns that sledge "purchased" the boy from his impoverished parents for a few dollars, he kicks Sledge out of town and instructs Billy to escort the boy back to his village. Bonney learns that Sledge works for a owner of the town's trading post and the crooked businessman has all of its citizens in his thrall because of his shady practices.
- A scruffy no-account shows up in Lincoln with Mary Susan, his lovely teen-aged daughter, and tries to arrange her marriage to whichever bachelor will pay him the highest price. Pat Garrett and Billy Bonney intervene and runs the pair out of town. When her father becomes drunk, Mary Susan flees his campsite and returns to town set on marrying either Pat or Billy.
- Billy ignores Pat's warning about marauding Apaches and rides to Santa Fe to keep a meeting with a pretty girl. On the road, Billy is wounded by the Indians and takes refuge in an abandoned fort where he finds three women, one of them pregnant and several children. Billy must organize a defense when the Apaches regroup for another attack.
- Elena, Pat's former girlfriend, returns to Lincoln looking for protection. The man she left Pat for, Joe Durango, is an outlaw and a deadly gunfighter. She believes that the only place Durango won't look for her is in the town where her spurned lover is sheriff. Unfortunately, Elena underestimates Durango's ability to follow her footsteps. The gunfighter plans to exact his revenge on both Pat and Elena using the town's Fourth of July celebration to cover his gunplay.
- On the eve of the Lincoln County election, Sheriff Brady is murdered by one of Andy Gorman's hirelings. The town council persuades Pat Garrett to run in Brady's place, but Gorman resorts to numerous dirty tricks to make sure his candidate is victorious.
- Hannah Blossom is lured to Lincoln by a letter proposing marriage and a photograph of her supposed suitor. Hannah learns that the letters were purportedly written by Pa McBean, an illiterate farmer, and the enclosed picture was of Sheriff Pat Garrett. Garrett investigates and discovers that the letters were written by McBean's feisty daughters who want their father to marry and with the girls' help, the sheriff tries to nudge the romance along.
- Garrett negotiates the return of a girl, now a full-grown woman, who was captured by the Apaches nine years earlier. Although her father welcomes her back with open arms, the former captive yearns to return to her husband, Talano, a noted Chirachaua warrior, who has sworn to kill any white man that tries to prevent her return to his village.
- During a gunfight, Billy kills an innocent by-stander, the daughter of a U.S. Marshal. The marshal rides into Lincoln and demands that Pat Garrett serve the warrant for Billy's arrest and process the extradition papers so he can be transported to Arizona territory for trial - and a date with the hangman's rope.
- Billy Bonney quits his job at Tundall's ranch and at the urging of his new friend Swade Hiney, plans to join an outfit run by Jake Newton. Billy learns that Newton is nothing but a cattle rustler, but can't get away before the local sheriff and his posse arrest Bonney, Swade and Newton. The ranchers whose cattle Newton has been stealing organize a lynch mob to kill the men before Pat Garrett can come to Billy's aid.
- Upon learning that a New York reporter has traveled West to write about a series of articles about "The Bad Men of the West", Billy spins wild tales of his criminal exploits. When the newspaperman wildly expands about Billy's yarns, the New Mexican government orders an investigation into Sheriff Pat Garrett career as a lawman.
- The McBeans receive word that the railroad will be laying track across their hardscrabble ranch and, as a result they will be evicted. May and June hatch a wild scheme to lure Pat Garrett away from Lincoln so Pa McBean can pose as the county sheriff and intercept the process server before he can legally remove them from their land.
- Lincoln is happily planning for the impending visit of Lew Wallace, the governor of the New Mexico territory. Pat Garrett is concerned that while Big Mamacita's cantina is outside the town limits, its customers frequently become drunk and unruly and their behavior won't present the town in a favorable light. Meanwhile Billy learns that Mamachita's grandson is Wallace's aide and fears that he will learn that she isn't the gentlewoman as she portrayed herself in her letters.
- Pat arrests Archie Keough, a drifter who can't pay his bar bill. In jail, Billy recognizes the old man as his stepfather's best friend and Pat releases him under Billy Bonney's recognizance. Archie repays Billy's kindness by robbing a saloon, murdering the bartender and planting evidence that implicates Billy with the crimes.
- Pat kills a man who was trying to steal a horse from the Lincoln livery stable. Billy recognizes the man as being one of a party of pioneers traveling across the Tundall ranch. When Garrett reports the death of the horse thief to the party's leader, Jeboriah Henry decrees that unless his widow shows mercy, the sheriff will die for killing her husband.
- A widow who is engaged to Tom Davis, a friend of Pat's, arrives in Lincoln with her young son. Davis asks Pat to look after his fiancée until he can return from a cattle drive and the widow begins to wonder if Garrett might be a more suitable husband than the man she is pledged to marry.
- During a severe drought, the only spring still flowing is on the Apache reservation and Mike Gray Eagle is making the most of the calamity by selling water to the white citizens at exorbitant prices. The Lincoln town council hires a pretty rainmaker to break the drought, but Gray Eagle and his men abduct the woman before she can break up their lucrative business.
- Don Diego, a wealthy Mexican-American landowner, and Rosa, his beautiful fiancée, have a falling out which ends in angry words and mutual recriminations. Rosa places a curse on Don Diego and his family and his son immediately dies from a horseback accident. Don Diego demands that Sheriff Garrett arrest Rosa for witchcraft.
- Desperate to get married, May and June McBean salt their father's worthless mine with gold nuggets in hopes that potential suitors will think that they're heiresses to a rich strike. The plan backfires when McBean purchases many luxuries on credit for which he won't be able to pay.
- Billy falls for a beautiful girl who doesn't believe in guns so, to impress her, he gives his holster and derringers to Pat Garrett so he won't be tempted to use them. This provides Bart Conway with a golden opportunity to steal Tundall's ranch and he orders two of his men to kill Bonney while he is unarmed.
- Garrett arrests the Killgor brothers, a pair of brutish drifters, for busting up one of Lincoln's saloons. Pat doesn't pay attention to the drifters' threats about their mother's viciousness, but the woman pistol whips Pat and frees her brood, locking Pat in their cell. The Killgores then steal sheriff's badges and embark on a crime spree.
- At a Christmas party, Billy accidentally knocks a drink from a man's hand while swinging wildly a piñata. A fight ensues and Billy winds up killing the man in self-defense. Billy flees Lincoln fearing that the local townspeople will not believe his story and stumbles upon a baby hidden near a burning cabin.
- Isobel Stewart, an old flame of Pat's, stops in Lincoln with her husband, Henry, who is dying of a rare disease. Unbalanced after receiving a medical opinion that his illness is fatal and jealous about Pat's friendship with his wife, Stewart plots to commit suicide, while trying to frame his death to make it appear that his wife murdered him.
- The Tugwell brothers and their pretty sister, Sally, come to Lincoln to find Sally's husband who left her immediately after getting married a year earlier. Sally has an infant baby and her brothers insist that Pat help them find Sally's ne'er-do-well husband - William Bonney aka Billy the Kid so he can make an honest woman of their sister. Billy, though, insists that he's never seen the young woman in his life.
- Pretty suffragette Amy Dodds throws a brick through a window in the Lincoln County jail. When Pat Garrett refuses to arrest her, she marches into Murphy's saloon and destroys his beautiful bar mirror and most of his liquor bottles with a barrage of bricks. When Garrett finally arrests her, she tells a newspaper reporter that the sheriff mistreated her in prison to gain publicity for her cause.