Comedy writer Rob Petrie talks his wife Laura into leaving their "sick" son Ritchie with a babysitter while they attend a big party.
Jim Hardie joins a group of passengers aboard a stagecoach that includes a woman and her son, a reporter and an outlaw.
Mark and Milly are shocked when Lucas begins gambling. They don't know that Lucas is "undercover" trying to catch a man cheating.
Steve's friend (Barbara Eiler) asks him to help find out who is dating her daughter (Brenda Scott). She thinks it is an older man. A mix up, caused by a borrowed fraternity pin, causes Steve to think it is Mike who is dating the daughter.
Jim Bowie intervenes when the French elements attempt to identify naturalist John James Audubon as their missing Dauphin, but he prefers American citizenship. Audubon was world-famous as a painter of birds.
