Terry Rangno

Lady newspaper editors are a great and colorful Frontier tradition. One of them, Jo Hart, inveighs against Bat Masterson, calling him a ruthless gunman and scoundrel. When Bat calls on the lady to set the record straight, she exercises her "woman's prerogative" of changing her mind.

A stagecoach carrying Bat and Claire, the local sheriff's fiancée, is robbed and Claire is kidnapped. With the sheriff wounded and out of action, Bat tries to rescue Claire and capture the entire gang of kidnappers by himself.

Baseball great Roy Campanella comes to coach the Calverton Boys' League just as Timmy puts in a bid for Lassie to become the team's mascot.