Tom Guthrie, who is trying to get re-elected as sheriff, tries to get Maverick to keep a low profile, but Bret is working on the biggest con of his life and isn't going to stop now.

Maverick and Guthrie are suckered into agreeing to protect a shipment of gold from a ruthless band of outlaws.

Bret masterminds a con to get back the townsfolk's land, which was legally stolen by the clever leader of a religious cult.

A religious charlatan dupes the townspeople so that he can obtain the rights to their land.

Bret exposes a crooked magician who is performing at the Red Ox.

An apparent Apache attack on a stagecoach incites the town to call in the cavalry, but Philo suspects white men of the deed.

Six men who each want to gain a reputation as the one who killed the famous Bret Maverick have followed a western pulp writer to Sweetwater.

Vigilantes take over the Red Ox saloon and put former sheriff Tom Guthrie on trial for crimes he allegedly committed in the past.

A stranger arrives in town, claiming to be in the process of finishing an epic ballad on the life and death of Bret Maverick.

An old flame of Bret's shows up in Sweetwater, pursued by two homicidal brothers she swindled.

It looks like Maverick is going to be hanged, unless he agrees to sell his life story to an ambitious historian.

Eastern financial interests attempt a takeover of Sweetwater businesses.

Bret wins a stolen horse in a poker game that Teddy Roosevelt was supposed to give as a gift to Geronimo to seal a new treaty and the young Congressman is desperate to recover the animal in time. Meanwhile, Tom tries to swing a business deal with several shady operators to build a new ice house using the Red Ox saloon and Maverick's ranch as collateral.

Women's suffrage catches fire in Sweetwater and no one feels the heat more than Maverick, who's just won a Chinese girl in a poker game.

Tom Guthrie's plan to hide his wounded friend, Billy the Kid, from a vengeful U.S. Marshal at Bret's ranch threaten to spoil the ex-gambler's barn-raising.

Maverick's reluctance to sell his ranch is the major stumbling block to bringing the railroad into Sweetwater.

Bret's poker winnings are stolen from the local bank, and he learns that the saloon he now owns has a quite considerable mortgage that has come due. Getting no help from the newly elected sheriff, who believes the days of the old west are over, he has no choice but to take off after the bank robbers on his own.

Bret Maverick wins a saloon in a poker game and decides to end his roving ways and settle down in Sweetwater, Arizona.