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The daughter of a bank robber, 11-year-old Kellie, has sworn to kill the man responsible for her father's death: namely, Jason McCord.
Tad Evers owns a freight line and knows that McCord is doing a survey for a railroad. He knows that the railroad will put him out of business and tries to stop McCord.
Once again, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) has a fateful brush with history when he saves legendary journalist Horace Greeley (Burgess Meredith) from an assassination attempt. Impressed by Jason's courage, Greeley hires him as his "social secretary" (translation: bodyguard). Now it is up to Jason to find out who wants to kill the eminent newspaperman--and why. (Incidentally, if you're thinking that Horace Greeley will at some point in the story say something like "Go west, Young Man", chances are that you're right...and never mind that Greeley never actually uttered those words).
McCord escapes his captors after finding out that the President will be poisoned by a performer at a costume party that night. Jason runs into Ashley and knocks him out, taking his costume and invitation. McCord saves the President in front of most of Washington and his Grandfather, erasing most people's notion that he was ever a coward.
McCord returns to Washington once again only to find himself in the middle of a plot to assassinate the President. McCord discovers the plot only to wind up unconscious and captured by the assassins.
McCord has been entrusted with $50,000 in gold and Juan Molinera is out to steal it.
The crisis averted and Custer's political ambitions quelled for now, McCord and Custer part ways as Custer tells his friend he is on his way to a place called Little Big Horn.
McCord prevents a clash between the cavalry and the Indians. Soon after Chief Sitting Bull shows up at a party for General Sheridan and asks for peace.
Jason McCord is sent undercover by the President to gain information on a potential Presidential bid by General George Armstrong Custer. Because McCord and Custer are old Academy buddies, President Grant hopes that Jason can uncover information on a plot to incite an Indian war that will place Custer in the Oval Office.
A foreign female doctor gives McCord a serum she is developing to try and cure his diphtheria and save his life.
McCord is hired by cattleman Roy Beckwith to put up a barbed wire fence around his land. This sparks off a war over the open range between the farmers and cattlemen.
McCord has come to town to witness the execution of a man who once saved his life. He meets the man's son who has sworn revenge on the town's residents.
McCord is asked to be sheriff in a town where sheriffs don't usually live very long. Three have been shot in the last year.
McCord in awakened by a messenger from President Grant, bearing a bottle of whiskey. McCord remembers a chance meeting during the Civil War with the future President when they were both captured by Confederate soldiers.
McCord is hired as a bodyguard for actor Edwin Booth, whose brother, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Lincoln.
McCord happens across a young Indian woman and a dead companion while traveling. He tries to help the women only to run afoul of a trio of wolf trappers, one of whom has taken the Indian as his own. Classic 60's Bruce Dern psycho performance.
McCord is arrested by uniformed troopers and put into a prison wagon with Randall Kirby. Randall is a former Confederate officer who is planning to establish a military empire with stolen Union gold.
Julius Perrin, who runs an orphan home, is being forced out of town. One of the orphans has been accuses of killing a man so the town wants to get rid of all of them.
McCord is cashing a $10,000 bank draft for his employer when Frank Ross and his gang stage a holdup.
McCord's skills as a fighter cause him to turn down an offer from P.T. Barnum. Barnum uses McCord's name and the massacre at Bitter Creek as the basis for his new Wild West Show, which irritates McCord. To get Barnum to drop the Bitter Creek reenactment, McCord engineers the merger between the Barnum & Bailey circuses.
Macon and McCord are forced to fight to the death.
Another flashback episode, McCord stops off at the grave of a friend and remembers the incident that brought them together. Both captured by Indians, the Chief makes the coward and the Black soldier fight to the death.
An undertaker asks for McCord's help in hauling a coffin into town. McCord doesn't know that the man in the coffin is still alive and plans on robbing the freight office.
McCord saves a man who claims to have witnessed the massacre at Bitter Creek. The witness agrees to testify to the Army that McCord didn't run out on the battle but something about the story doesn't seem to ring true for Jason.
McCord is paid to survey the newly acquired US possession of Alaska, where he finds evidence of gold and oil in abundance. But others want to steal the report to monopolize the find for themselves.
McCord gets caught up in a land use battle revolvoing around the seemingly orphaned son of an old friend. When the boy's estranged Uncle shows up to take the boy and the land rights he now owns, it's up to McCord to get the boy's Indian housekeeper, Neela, to speak up about her connection to the boy and his father.
A drifter robs McCord, stealing his horse. When he strolls into a saloon looking for trouble, the bandit winds up getting killed. After finding a letter addressed to Jason in the dead man's belongings, the town turns the young man who killed Jason McCord into a hero. That is, until the real Jason McCord shows up and wants his name back.
Ann Williams, a newspaper publisher, refuses to support Paul Mandell for an important public office. Mandell decides he will do whatever he has to do to get her support and McCord tries to protect her.
McCord tries to prevent an Indian war by attempting to negotiate the surrender of Red Hand.
McCord finds himself on a stagecoach with one of the officers from his courtmartial and a prisoner who is going to be hung.
