SPOILER: Determined to get back at Lucas McCain for scolding them in public, brothers Charv and Kelly Banner contact a marriage bureau in St. Louis to arrange for the agency to send Lucas a prospective bride. After Mary Woodson steps off the stagecoach in North Fork, word spreads quickly that Lucas is to be married. Everyone in town is taken aback including Mark, Micah, and Milly Scott who can't quite believe it. Neither can Lucas for that matter. For the Banners it's all a big joke, but for Mary Woodson, who spent her last dime to get to North Fork, it may mean a life of poverty or worse.
—garykmcd / edited by Hans Delbruck