Episode list

In the valley of the wild roses, Abraham 'Abe' Ross is the best rancher, but his only heir, Frederic, prefers to pursue his true talent, music. Neigboring rancher Dick Mills has only a daughter, Cassandra 'Cassie', although given to farming. She falls in love with mysteriously well-educated wandering cowboy Cal Withers and discovers he's the heir of Canada's largest railway corporation. When his ma is dying, she manages to sabotage their love. After Dick gets paralyzed in a fall, the ranch's only hope is for Cassie, who fled city life, to marry her good friend Frederic. Dick's sister Virginia also arrives to take care of him and has an affair with Abe.

Two years after his formal engagement to local best friend since childhood, Kate Mulligan, British-Canadian career officer Terence Hudson returns to the valley. He wants to marry Kate quickly before taking up his new post, commanding a colonial regiment in India. His friend and prospected wedding witness Ken Kaloon visits, unexpectedly accompanied by his sister Cindy, Terence's lover. On a last long trek trough her beloved Rocky Mountains, Kate has a fall and is saved from a bear by farmer-park ranger Matt Stevens, and falls in love with him.

Warren Johnson, a devout former teacher, retreated to a desolate farm to mortify himself after killer his wife Milded's assailant, ruling his home and young sons with an iron rod. They take in orphaned cousin Elizabeth 'Lilly' Wright. She falls in love with Clive Bartlets, who plans to build a dam which would inundate the already unprofitable Johnson farm. Clive's investor, banker Graham Parker, falls in unrequited love with Lilly. When they all learn about these conflicting interests, further drama ensues.