Ranger Bill — 1962

Storm-wrecked roads force a detour on Henry's bus journey.

Frenchy DeSalle's loggers carouse in Border Town every weekend, a church becomes a liquor club, and a revived coal-seam fire shoots 20-foot flames from the ground.

Ranger John Bishop and his wife Jane pray for relief from their dull outpost, and God answers lavishly -- wildlife, Moose McBain himself, floods, and far more than they wanted.

New Zealand scientist Dr. Harris and his aide Franklin slip into a fire-closed forest and are trapped by the blaze; sudden rains then threaten to wash out the scorched ground before it can be reseeded.

Ice floes from six swollen rivers pile against a rail trestle, and with dynamite useless Bill must devise a novel way to save it.

Inspecting a 350-ton towboat, Bill and Stumpy face its barges catching fire, with Mrs. Murphy along as cook.

A rash of abandoned campfires along the river puts two visiting anglers -- and old Buck Sawyer -- under Ranger Ralph Dawson's suspicion.

Pilot Abner Benson attacks grass fires from the air, dropping pink calcium-borate foam.