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Three men taking nitro to fight a forest fire are killed when it blows up. Stockton is threatened by the fire, and the three Barkley men are the only ones who will try the nitro trip this time. So, they hide the fact from their mother (bad idea to hide anything from Victoria), roping Silas into lying for them (terrific scenes for Napoleon Whiting for a change, especially when Victoria catches him in the lie), and the brothers go off in a reconstructed hearse toward the fire.

The first installment is more interesting than the second. It involves each of the Barkley men getting involved with a woman - Nick because he reaalllly wants to (it doesn't work because it turns out she will do anything he wants to get him to take the nitro out to fight the fire); Jarrod because the girl who was to marry one of the men already killed desperately wants money to get out of working in a saloon (and she'll do anything he wants to get it); Heath because an evangelist girl in town thinks she is a coward and failure to her family, long dead, and he saves her from an attack by a couple low-lives (and she'll do anything to get over her guilt feelings about her family).

The second installment gets a bit hackneyed. The men fight problems on the way to the fire. They get to the fire to have the girl Heath's involved with show up there too to prove her bravery. A fallen tree pins Heath in the way of the flames. Nothing different from any other western forest fighting episode or particularly interesting either.