Ride along with Paladin, the dark knight of the old West. Paladin, a man of refined taste and the gunfighter with the fastest draw, always tries to settle things in a civilized manner. But when pushed into violence, he rises to the challenge. From his classy home at San Francisco's Carlton Hotel, the master gunfighter is willing to travel wherever the strong hand of a hero is needed. Whether he's taking out a madman Marshal or saving a delusional...

Matt Dillon is in charge of Dodge City, a town in the Wild West where people often have no respect for the law. He deals on a daily basis with the problems associated with frontier life: cattle rustling, gunfights, brawls, stand over tactics, and land fraud. Such situations call for sound judgment and brave actions: of which Marshal Dillon has plenty.

Pre-wedding jitters: Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.