Richard Fullerton

At the urging of his son Clay, Ned Logan buys Gauntlet, a young colt with a fast future. Ned is surprised when the horse sells cheap until he learns about a financial crisis in town. Asa Winters is forced to close down his bank after his reckless son William gambles away the town's savings. The sudden closure angers the townspeople, who are smugly dismissed by Asa on the steps of the bank.

Poor financial conditions influence the Ingalls family to move to Winoka when Mary goes there to teach at the Blind School. They meet Albert, an orphan who Charles forms an attachment to, even though Laura catches him stealing from the hotel that Charles was managing and Caroline was running the kitchen/dining room for.

While Mary is going to teach at the Blind School in Winoka, and since financially they can't make a living in Walnut Grove the rest of the Ingalls family goes to Winoka, too. Charles gets a job managing a hotel and Caroline runs the Kitchen/Dining room. They make the acquaintance of an orphan, Albert who befriends the Ingalls.

Hawkeye, B.J. and Charles must ponder the promotion possibilities for the enlisted men and Potter befriends an upstanding soldier.

Ichabod and Abbie face demonic creatures that guard a secret crypt and encounter Thomas Jefferson in their quest to fight evil. Meanwhile, Jenny learns a shocking secret about Frank Irving.