- John needs cattle. He offers to buy cattle from area ranchers but learns they are being force to sell to Dolph Tanner at a lower price. The Cannons are forced to fight Tanner as John accepts Victoria and Blue in their proper roles.
- John has a contract to deliver 500 head of cattle to the Army at $10 per head but he has trouble finding enough cattle on the ranch to fill it. He offers to buy cattle from smaller ranchers for $7.50 but learns they are forced to sell their cattle to Dolph Tanner at a price he sets - $3.50. After killing an Apache, they find he had a new Spencer repeating rifle. John tries to change the local ranchers mind about selling to him but with no luck. At the same time Buck surmises that Tanner is selling the rifles to the Apaches in return for protection from them. At the High Chaparral Victoria has Vaquero take down John's first wife's wind chimes. John starts to stop it but relents realizing Victoria is now his wife. Tanner's foreman is killed by Manolito after he kills a rancher. It sets the stage for a showdown with Tanner in a ravine. Tanner tries to stampede his cattle through John's blockade plus he has the Apaches with their Spencers shooting at Cannon's men from above. Hearing the battle Blue and Manolito leave the ranch to help. Being higher they are able to pick off Tanner's men and the Apaches. As with Victoria John realizes Blue has grown into someone he can count on.—Anonymous
- Big John makes a deal with mayor Corbett of the US Army to deliver 500 cows to Fort Buoy within 30 days. He has only 250 cows himself, but thinks he could easily buy the rest from other rancheros. When Big John wants to buy cattle from the Mexican peasant Jacinto Perez, and offers to pay 7,50 dollars a head, the Mexican declines his offer, because he has already promised to sell them to the cattle buyer Dolph Tanner for 3 dollars a head. Manolito talks with Jacinto, and finds out that the rancheros are afraid of Tanner, who has killed two of their fellows, when they refused to sell cattle to him. Tanner has also made an agreement with the Indians, who get new Spencer rifles from him, if they help him to frighten the rancheros. When Tanner wants to buy cattle from Big John as well, Big John says no, and also forbids Tanner to cross his land with his cattle, or letting them drink from his pond. Tanner threatens Big John, and says that they will pass through his land anyway. Big John puts up a barricade across the road leading into his land, and deploys his armed men around and behind it.—Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}
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