Heiress Marian Fitzwater, wed at the age of five and widowed at seventeen without having seen her husband in years, turns to Robin Hood for help in discovering who the queen has selected as her new bridegroom and when the choice is not to her liking, she runs off with the handsome prince of thieves and begins life as an outlaw.
In the 1960s, a spiritual man named Jeremiah Land sets out from his Minnesota home with his young son and daughter to find his elder son, Davy, after he escapes jail on the morning of his sentencing for murder.
In 1870s Arkansas, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross persuades U.S. Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn to ride into Indian Territory and help her capture the gang of outlaws who murdered her father.
Sarah, the daughter of Captain Fairweather, and her cousin Jack, with the help of Minnie the Mule, track down a group of bandits responsible for a series of bank robberies along the Erie Canal in 1850.