Hawks is fascinated by the story Coop is telling about the Earp brothers and a lady who dies in a stage coach wreck that was hauling a cargo of silver.
Robert Harrison Clarke is a London news correspondent out to prove that thriller dime novels glorifying the Wild West are false. He learns a lot about the West and the men who live there.
Madam Sagittarius has a reputation as a con woman. The rest of the passengers on the train snub her because of this. Charley Wooster, often left out on a limb himself, feels sorry for her and takes her under his wing. It is the beginning of a close relationship.
The wagon train comes across a devastated wagon party where they find Renaldo, a wounded member of the attacking comancheros who was left to die by his comrades.