The series stars James Garner as former Texas Ranger Captain Woodrow F. Call, now a bounty hunter, hired to track down Joey Garza (Alexis Cruz) who is preying on the railroad.
It also features Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Ned Beatty, Randy Quaid, Wes Studi, Charles Martin Smith, and George Carlin.
A young psychopathic Mexican bandit named Joey Garza has murdered numerous people, and cost railroad tycoon Colonel Terry significant business and money through his deadly train robberies.
Joey, in possession of a Swiss sniper rifle, learns that Call is after him and having shot a gringo, hides out in Crow Town, an outlaw village deep in the borderland desert.
Maria, now rescued from the deputies by Billy Williams, goes to Crow Town to warn her son that Call is getting closer.
Garza, still hiding out west of the Pecos River in Crow Town, soon meets another notorious denizen—the legendary Texas gunfighter, John Wesley Hardin.
After Maria arrives to warn him, she kills the town's "devil pig" and later butchers it after Joey disappears and steals her horse.
Captain Call, arriving in Ojinaga, hears of their plight and crosses the river to free them from jail, near-killing the sheriff after he refuses to allow their release on order of the governor.
Meanwhile, Lorena, in search of Pea Eye, arrives in Laredo, and Garza rides off to Langtry, Texas, where he shoots and hangs Judge Roy Bean.
On the trail, Deputy Plunkert receives news of his wife's suicide and rides off for Laredo, but is soon killed and stripped by bandits.
Roy Bean was not shot and hanged on his front porch, but died in his sleep, possibly due to alcohol poisoning in 1903, a decade after the events of the series.