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In what may very well be the last of the great poker games in the Old West, Bret wins ownership of the Red Ox saloon and decides to settle down in the town of Sweetwater in the Arizona Territory. He then purchases a ranch with his cash winnings from the game which he names the Lazy Ace.

Former sheriff Tom Guthrie joins Bret as partner in the Red Ox saloon, much to the dismay of many townspeople who just booted the old-fashioned lawman out of office and consider him an anachronism.

Maverick's reluctance to sell his ranch, the Lazy Ace, is the major stumbling block to bringing the railroad into Sweetwater but he suspects that the railroad representatives may not be who they seem.

A barn-raising celebration at Maverick's ranch helps him and Tom Guthrie conceal Billy the Kid from a posse led by a bloodthirsty U.S. Marshal.

Women's suffrage catches fire in Sweetwater and no one feels the heat more than Maverick, who's just won a Chinese girl in a poker game and can't find a satisfactory way to get rid of her.

Teddy Roosevelt comes to town to present a Native American chief with a horse from the president, but Maverick ends up winning the stallion in a poker game with the man who stole it.

A Tucson land combine attempts a takeover of Sweetwater businesses using Chicago gangster methods but Bret comes up with a scheme to get rid of the combine.

After being arrested for murder on a trip to St. Louis, it looks like Maverick is going to be hanged unless he agrees to sell his life story to an ambitious historian. Meanwhile, Mary Lou has strange encounter with a fugitive outlaw.

Hallie McCullough, an old galpal of Bret's, arrives in Sweetwater and needs his help against two psycho brothers whom she swindled.

A stranger arrives in town, claiming to be in the process of finishing an epic ballad on the life and death of Bret Maverick. This happens just as Bret is trying to unload a silver mine he won in a poker game but all his potential buyers believe it's a con game.

Pistol packin' mama Addie Burnett and her hired guns takeover the Red Ox saloon and put former sheriff Tom Guthrie on trial for a murder he allegedly committed 20 years prior. Maverick must serve as Guthrie's defense counsel.

Six men who each want to gain a reputation as the one who killed the famous Bret Maverick have followed a western pulp writer to Sweetwater in hopes that he'll make one of them immortal in one of his novels.

When a stagecoach is attacked by Apaches and a woman is killed, the angry townspeople want to call in the cavalry but Philo Sandine insists that the crime was committed by white men.

Bret has his suspicions about a magician who's just been hired to work at the Red Ox. The magician, who has other plans besides magic, is also leery of Maverick so he frames him for a murder.

A religious charlatan dupes the townpeople so that he can obtain the rights to their land.

Bret masterminds a con to get back the townsfolk's land, which was legally stolen by the clever leader of a religious cult.

Bret Maverick and Tom Guthrie are suckered into agreeing to protect a shipment of gold from a ruthless band of outlaws led by a former Confederate officer.