A wealthy selfmade man aging rancher George Washington McLintock, is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly every one wants a bit of the enormous farmstead, for example highranking government men, McLintock's own sons and neighboring Native Americans. Since McLintock attempts to juggle his various adversaries, two decades previously, his spouse, who left him returns. But she's not interested in her husband -- she wants custody of their daughter.