A woman replaces her husband as town sheriff after he is gunned down; a young man who has an aversion to guns is sent to the wild west to learn to become a "real man" by his dying father's last request; in the wake of a man's death, his widow and two children must decide between staying in their home in Wyoming, or moving back east; a marshal is sent to the tough western territory of Yuma in an effort to restore law and order.