Ranger Bill — 1954

The country's biggest buffalo herd disappears from the Shady at the very moment Col. Anders brings the governor and a party of federal officials to Knotty Pine to admire it, leaving Bill a single faint clue.

When shopkeeper Tony refuses to hand Ed Blake's gang cash for baseball uniforms his market is wrecked, and only one member, young Mike, dares stand up to the bullies.

Ordered to rest in Knotty Pine, aging prospector Joshua Webb slips back to the desert after gold, and Bill's crew must brave scorching heat to bring him home.

On a deep-sea outing with salvage veteran Ben Benson, the rangers face a sunken training sub and Ben's refusal to help, rooted in a son lost on an earlier job.

Two boys scale a treacherous cliff and land in danger.

Randolph Thompson's coal-burning locomotives throw sparks that threaten the great pines along his rail lines.

Bill recalls his days as a Navy medic tormented by his sergeant, and how he saved the man's life, to steady a young soldier, Ted Sloan, facing the same trial.

Disciplined by their disabled teacher for scheming sports plays in class, two boys retaliate by branding him prejudiced against athletics.