After a coronary episode, David Hart decides to try & make his lifelong dream of being a cowboy come true. He makes a deposit on a dude ranch, then finds out things are not quite what they seem.
Auggie decides his time has come and begins to prepare for death, but Dave struggles with the idea & tries to convince him otherwise, while Auggie's extended family comes to join in the celebration.
Dave wants to compete in the traditional buckboard competition & gets a previous winner as his partner, but it doesn't turn out to be who he expects. Then Allison joins the race & it's a battle of the sexes.
R.O. gets kicked out & moves in with the Harts. L'Amour & Zane find a lingerie catalog their parents had printed when they were first starting out & are shocked. Duke opens up about being scared of horses.
When the owner of the company that has a monopoly on taking the town's cattle to market quadruples his prices, Dave et al decide to have an old-fashioned cattle drive.