When a former F Troop member, now an officer in charge of closing down unnecessary forts, comes to Fort Courage to get married, everyone believes he actually came to close it down.
Wild Eagle has a toothache, so O'Rourke has him pretend to be a trooper to see the fort dentist. But when a visiting general begins promoting Wild Eagle up the ranks, he enjoys army life too much to go back to the tribe.
When Parmenter catches a cold the day before his examination for promotion to major, everyone rushes in with home remedies -- all of which include some kind of alcohol and combine to make him drunk.
When Big Jim Parker comes to town, buying it as well as the land beneath Fort Courage and the Hekawi camp, F Troop faces eviction unless they can prove they're still needed to keep the Indians at bay.
A marriage broker comes to Fort Courage, giving Agarn bad dreams of married life and terrifying Captain Parmenter when Jane hires her to get them married.
Agarn faces a firing squad after a prisoner he allows to escape seems to kill O'Rourke and military regulations say he has to serve the sentence for the crime.
Flaming Arrow, the 147-year old chief of the Hekawi, comes down from a mountain to try to reclaim their land, starting by laying siege to Fort Courage.
The mayoral candidates from Agarn's hometown come to Fort Courage to shower him with offers when it's learned that his absentee ballot will break their tied vote.
When the troop's payroll train is robbed, O'Rourke faces foreclosure on his saloon, so Agarn and O'Rourke volunteer to guard replacement funds from Washington.