After Melanie Craig's husband Joe is killed in a wagon accident, the staff of the wagon train and some of the widow women decide they must help her in her time of mourning only to find that she has taken care of herself better than they could. She has joined the Endicott family to look after the two daughters and the ailing mother. Secondly, she is not in mourning but enjoying life as she feels her husband Joe would want her to. Given that Melanie is also very beautiful and pleasant to be with she suddenly finds herself the target of four young single men including Duke who want to court and marry her. Their fights over her cause continued disruption on the wagon train. When Rudd Basham's son Matt teases Charlotte Endicott with a horned toad, Melanie intercedes taking Matt to Rudd for punishment. Rudd lets his boys roam freely with views on women that has them subservient to men which causes Melanie to be disgusted with him. However, his other charms come through as Melanie slowly reforms his views with the other men in the background oblivious to her interests.
—Anonymous