S2, E1: Kate Macahan's sister, Molly Culhane from Chicago, joins the family. A Mormon family arrives at the homestead while fleeing religious persecution, but the patriarch soon charms Laura. Zeb mediates between the Army and the angry Sioux after Russian royalty kills buffalo on Sioux land. Luke aids a local sheriff and meets his feisty daughter.

Starring Horst Bucholz, Vera Miles, Cameron Mitchell