Season 1
Jim Redigo is foreman for the enormous Garrett Ranch owned by matriarch Lucia with her children Tal and Constance. Redigo had his hands full managing people, machines, and animals, with a specific interest in attractive Connie. (The unaired pilot was titled This Rugged Land)
episodes
Sam Ballard's embezzling killed Redigo's father. Now Sam's back---digging for oil near the Garret ranch.
Redigo returns to the small ranch his father left him and finds that it's being run by a teen-ager.
Dahlbeck's guest at a ranch party seems to wield an eerie hold over him.
Wealthy Tom Cole visits the spread during a severe drought and his untimely friendliness suggests he wants to buy the ranch.
Ex-employee Barney Swanton returns to the ranch rich but is still envious of Redigo, whose job he always wanted.
Story of a raging oil-well fire and the man who offers to put it out.
Glenn Kassin wants to build a model city near Mesa, but the landowner refuses to sell.
In the midst of negotiating for oil rights, Redigo is called out of town---leaving Tal to handle the bargaining.
Worries over his pretty young ward are causing a drop in efficiency for chief engineer Tabor.
A sharecropper who objects to education uses abusive tactics to keep his son home from school.
After taking young Skip Wade to court for vandalism, Redigo determines to make the youth a useful citizen.
A Native American war veteran's penchant for violence is isolating him from his friends, neighbors and family.
Janet Rainey claims she's just going shopping---but there are those who suspect she's leaving town.
Mike Novak wants to work on the Garret spread until he's paid for a mare of his choice, but his choice is Tal's favorite.
Adding urgency to his surgery-or-death status, Redigo's sick friend is a very uncooperative patient.
Afraid that a volunteer posse may take the law into its own hands, Redigo joins the hunt for a man accused of robbery.
Connie's former beau is back at the ranch---expressing a new interest in working and a renewed interest in her.
After claiming he doesn't need the security of the Garret ranch, Tal leaves for Delgado---on the bet he can't stay a week.
News of her fatal illness inspires Lucia to establish a better relationship between son Tal and foreman Redigo.
The mine shuts down when the heady enchantress running a vital processing plant decides to buy out the Garrets.
Forest Ranger Tom Barton has problems: the Garret logging operation is violating the timber contract with the Forest Service--and logging foreman Chris Norden is a tough guy to deal with.
Prison escapee Quinn Serrato is out to find his old boss---Redigo, the man who turned him in.
A woman stands in the way of Redigo's cattle drive by asking too much to cross her property.
Paralysis overcomes Redigo after he is trampled by a wild stallion.
Moreno attempts to offset the fears of a young girl in a town full of hot-blooded cowboys.