This show depicts sexual assault in a realistic way in order to show the struggles of women in the Old West. S1E1: a drunk man breaks into a young girl's room and falls into her bed. Upon noticing her, he removes the sheet from her and tries to unto her nightgowns buttons. She tries to scream but he covers her mouth. After hurting him, she begins to scream and run away, grabbing her younger brother on the way out of the room. The man pulls her back into the room, punches her, and sits ontop of her. The girl's father then shoots the man from the doorway. S1E2: a middle aged woman is distraught when several strange men cross their camp to let their horses drink from the river. The woman throws stones at them and one approaches her roughly: he sits on top of her and punches her repeatedly before verbally implying he wants to rape her. He is stopped before any sexual assault can happen. S1E9: a group of travelers find a Native American camp that has been attacked. One of the victim's bodies is naked and one of the travelers remark that she was raped, and that the attack was done for sport. S1E10: bandits attack a group of pioneers. A woman tries to flee and is attacked and then raped, she is then killed when she tries to flee again.