Ranger Bill — 1956

Badly hurt when feuding gangs clash on her land, Mrs. Kane keeps working and praying for peace between them.

A buffalo bull's goring leaves Stumpy fighting for his strength and his courage, and Bill gives the Old Timer thirty days to return to work or surrender his badge.

Heir to the family ranch after his father's death, Lester Winters faces foreclosure unless the boys can track down the spread's missing cattle.

Back from reform school and shunned by townsfolk, George Bruce takes a hauling job for Frenchy DeSalle's loggers, then loses the payroll.

Rain and flooding menace the tracks and trestles as the Fireball Express, 400 aboard, races toward Knotty Pine.

New owner Todd Stone buys Ezra Newcomb's ranch, then breaks Ezra's pledge to let local hot-rodders keep racing there safely.

Shattered when a car kills his son, a grieving father is consumed by the urge to avenge the boy on the driver.

Certain tornadoes have never struck the Shady River Valley, residents and radio man Bart Sneed brush off warnings from the weathermen and from Bill.

Frenchy DeSalle has to clear a springtime jam of logs that is backing the Shady River up into riverside homes.

The Secret Service believes vanished scientist Dr. Jonathan Black, needed to replace Dr. Orlando, is hiding in Knotty Pine, and Bill may know just who he is.

With storms and thaw threatening Big Ridge Dam, Bill gets three hours to warn every farmer and rancher in the valley before the floodgates open.

When his faithful horse Storm falls gravely ill, Bill flies the animal to city vets who cannot help, then insists on a country doctor's know-how.

On ski patrol the rangers hear a strange cry: a jaguar now preying on cattle at nearby ranches.

Sultan, a powerful performing lion, turns on his trainer Flick Martin.

Old Joe, the Shady Mountains' largest bear, ransacks food-strewn summer homes, forcing the rangers to drive him away from Goose Lake.

Ten-year-old Jimmy Woodruff is content working hard for the grandfather he lives with, until a woman sets out to remove him from the old man's home.

Moose McBain's news of a body encased in ice leads the rangers to a research party entombed by an avalanche inside a cave.