A New Life/401 (ANL)

While the honeymoon was great, Sully was not as aware of Mike's feelings now that they were married, but took the time to listen to her. But in the meantime, he was also worried about Cloud Dancing and suggested he move to the Palmer Creek Reservation. Bounty hunters attacked them and Sully gets a split lip but Cloud Dancing is shot. While at the homestead recuperating, he agreed to go to Palmer Creek, but once Sully saw the violence there towards his brother, he regretted the decision. But it is Cloud Dancing who assured Sully that he is at peace with the decision and warned Sully that perhaps his own marriage threatened his freedom. Sully reconsidered his relationship with Mike and ended up helping her with her garden that he had earlier neglected. He said to her that he has feelings with her that he never had with Abagail. Note: Sully no longer wears the turtle pouch. The family seems to own several horses and Sully exclusively rides one which a feather on the bridle.

Travelling All Stars/402 (TAS)

Introducing himself as Byron Sully, he indicated that he worked at several different mining operations where he learned to play baseball. While he agreed to play on the team at first, he left after the town leaders would not let women, children and Blacks play. He watched the first game. But when the second game is scheduled, he showed up at the last minute for practice, responding to the question of what took him so long with "I had to make the bat." Sully was the pitcher (hurler) and hit a home run in the final inning to win the game.

Mothers and Daughters/403 (MAD)

When Colleen wanted to go on a hayride, Mike turned to Sully for the decision and he said no, but did discuss with Mike the souring relationship between her and Colleen, urging Mike to be patient. Meanwhile, the two of them had a most glorious relationship as Mike discovers the joy of intimacy. He removed her shoes and socks and gave a foot rub, which lead to a leg rub. When Brian tried to interrupt, he was pleased that she put him off to stay with Sully, saying that she knows he has her attention. Later, when Mike asked if she was too forward, he told of the Cheyenne custom of asking the new groom if the bride shows enthusiasm, and then told Mike he appreciates her enthusiasm. Later, after reading a story to Brian, he said he needed a hug and asked if she minded him asking, to which she said she appreciated his enthusiasm.

Brother's Keeper/404 (BK)

Sully was the first to know that Pup may be rabid and went to try and find the raccoon. He was planting an orchard for Mike when Ingrid was bitten and he carried her to the house. He did not wear a suit to church but did for Ingrid's funeral. As Ingrid lay dying, Mike asked him if he was thinking about Abagail, to which he said some, but then listened to her talk about David. He supported Brian by telling him that blaming does not fix anything, but it keeps tearing at folks. He tried to comfort Matthew at the funeral and took away the loaded gun. After Brian went after Pup, he and the family tracked Brian. He came upon Matthew and Brian when neither of them could shoot Pup, and for the first time, took the loaded gun and put the dog down.

Hell on Wheels/405 (HOW)

Sully understood Matthew's need to get away from the familiar and tried to make Mike understand. Even when they found Matthew and she did not want to leave, he tried to make her understand that by staying, she was making it harder on everyone. But in a confrontation with Matthew to try to keep him from using the nitroglycerin, he told Matthew that after Abagail died he walked around for months asking why he had to lose his wife and baby, but found there was no sense in asking why. He said the question was what was Matthew going to do now. When Matthew began to get physical, he tried to goad Matthew into fighting by asking him to show how angry he was with Ingrid for leaving him, and how angry he was at Sully for trying to stop him. Although Matthew went ahead with the explosion, Sully noted when Matthew chose to live.

Halloween III/407 (HIII)

Sully was busy building a surprise for Halloween, and Mike thought he was growing tired of family life when she did find him at the reservation when he said he was going there. Sully showed disdain for dressing as Prince Charming for Halloween, yet built her a special carriage and dressed in his suit with a purple sash as a surprise. The whole ensemble gained applause from the townsfolk. He also carved a huge pumpkin for the celebration. Meanwhile, he knew that reason would not convince Brian that there is no ghost and tries to convince Mike. He supported Grace's use of an herbal charm, and supported using myths to give Brian a way to deal with his fears. He told Mike that he had to face his fears to get over them.

Dorothy's Book/406 (DB)

Sully was helping Robert E build a table for Grace when he learned of Dorothy's book. Jake said the only one who came off as a hero in the book was Sully. When Mike was upset, Sully asked her if she was upset because of what Dorothy revealed or that Brian spoke to Dorothy and not her about missing his mother. Sully wore his buckskins to church where Mike refused to greet Dorothy and Sully urged Matthew to say something and he did. In the barn, Sully confronted Mike and told her that he did not think she would quit a friendship over a disagreement, and that he was not going to do anything that would help Mike lose a friend. Sully helped Brian build a hummingbird feeder and asked Brian if something was wrong. Sully said it was all right not to talk about something, but sometimes things build up so they rattle around in your head. He answered Brian's question, saying that although he was rather new at it himself, he had learned that when you did not talk to Mike it was worse than anything you could say. That prompted Brian to talk to her. Later, Sully muzzled Brian and got him out of the house so Mike could talk to Colleen.

Promises Promises/408 (PrPr)

Sully received a letter smelling of lilac and Mike was jealous. He told her she was beautiful when she was. It was a letter from Daniel, who cannot write and thus had a woman friend write it. Daniel was a childhood friend and once saved Sully's life (but it is Matthew he tells that Daniel saved his life in the mine cave-in). Daniel moved on after Sully met Abagail. Sully made him a promise to come if he ever needed his help. Daniel wrote to say he had struck gold in Nevada and needed Sully's help in setting up the operation, and sent round-trip train tickets. Because of Mike's preoccupation with Loren's stroke, she simply assumed that he would not go and he assumed he would. After putting off the conversation, they finally talk and Mike became upset about his wanting to honor his promise. He understood her position when she told him her father died of a stroke like Loren's and then she realized he is a man of honor and she agreed to his going to help Daniel. Sully told Mike that as much as she needed him, he needed her more. Meanwhile, he was going to help remodel the new house Loren was going to buy for Dorothy; he broke the glass on the store door to get to Loren when he collapsed. Upon leaving for Nevada, he asked Matthew to watch the homestead, Brian to take care of things and Loren to be a father to Brian while he is gone.

Notes: Sully says he and Daniel met after his folks died, grew up on the docks together, headed west together for the Pike's Peak gold rush and that Daniel saved his life.

The Expedition/409/410 (TE)

When family was planning Mike's birthday party, she surprised them, saying she wanted to climb Pike's Peak. Sully gave that look of recognition that said I know you've made up your mind. At first, he thought she wanted them both to go and he was glad to cancel the party because he did not like socializing. When she said she wanted to go alone, noting he had been gone a month to Nevada to help Daniel, he at first objected but then relented, saying after they have a baby it won't be so easy for her to go off. He gave her a map and advice about the various stages of the trip, and told her even if she did not make it to the top, he believed in her. Meanwhile, Sully told the kids that it would be fun without Mike: they could go fishing everyday, eat lots of cookies and pies, stay up late and not clean their rooms for a week. When the men in town had a poker party, Sully did not join in or was not invited, so when he went into Loren's and found the men discussing a town meeting to vote in a casino and hotel, he objected, saying they should wait for Mike. Robert E had been at the poker game but objected to the casino proposal. Robert E read the town charter and found that the next of kin can take the seat of a temporarily missing town council member and urged Sully to go. Sully went to the town meeting, saying, "this is not my idea of fun." He approached the table and told them that Preston was in his seat. After reading the charter, Jake agreed and as Preston left the table, he jabbed at Sully, saying, "after all, it is your wife's seat." Sully objected to Preston's proposal that 10% of proceeds would go into the town treasury for civic improvements, noting that the government had not kept its promises for assistance to the Indians. Sully was the only vote against the proposal. Robert E fixed Sully's hacksaw and Sully saw that Robert E was upset and inquired. Robert E confessed that he had killed his owner trying to escape slavery when the owner tried to drown Robert E's nephew. Sully said it was self defense and Robert E said it was murder where he came from. Later, Sully told Robert E he should tell Grace because he married her to have a better life, but Robert E said he was scared Grace would leave him. Sully said "not the Grace I know." Sully witnessed Preston double-cross Jake about the casino and read the town charter and other government documents. Off screen, he convinced Jake, Loren and the others to have Jake as mayor, declare Preston's location for the casino as an historical site. Sully and the others approached Preston at his location in town and told him the mayor was declaring it an historical site. Sully pulled a paper from his pocket and said it was all written down because they knew how important it was to Preston to have things in writing. When Preston promised retaliation, Sully that was fine because they all knew how Preston was in keeping promises. At a picnic with the kids and the other men, Sully toasted to politics and to friends who watch out for each other. Mike and the other women showed up, and after telling her how proud he was of her, he said they would tell her everything about what happened while she was away.

One Touch of Nature/411 (OTON)

Sully and Mike were trying to have a baby and he made a cradle and carved a dove to dangle from the top. He arranged for the kids to stay with Matthew at the old homestead and cooked Mike a romantic dinner, saying he learned to cook in mining camps. When Ginny lost her baby and Clayton was praying in the street, Sully said that was he when Abagail died. The memory caused Sully to want to not try for a baby because he did not want to risk losing Mike; that Mike, his family and his house are everything he ever wanted. Robert E confronted his attitude and made him realize that he should not let his fear keep his family from growing. He supported having Thanksgiving at the reservation and told Mike of the ceremony that Cloud Dancing wanted to do: the use of tobacco would let go of the spirits that have died so they could be thankful for what they have. He hugged and swirled Mike around when she told him she was pregnant.

Fifi's First Christmas/412 (FFC)

Sully got a new tomahawk and taught Brian to throw the tomahawk, to drive the wagon and to use the North Star for navigation at night. He noticed Brian's attention to Sarah, telling him to wipe the drool off his chin. He tried to convince Mike that Brian should change his hair if he wanted to, and that Brian did not have to wear the new suit Mike got. When Brian was despondent about Sarah, he threw the tomahawk to release a rope to let the harness down and told Brian that just because something is out of reach does not mean you cannot get it. While in the woods, Sully gave Brian a necklace of beads, saying he made it when he was with the Cheyenne but did not know whom he made it for, but now he knew he made it for his son, and they hugged. When the poodle arrived, which he never carried, he and Matthew joked that the poodle was "bait" and that the coyotes were near because the poodle was "easy pickings."

The Year: 1871

Change of Heart/413 (COH)

Sully fed Wolf from a fork at the table in the café; carved with Robert E and Anthony, and went to see Cloud Dancing about Anthony's symptoms. In a father/son conversation with Matthew, he said when he first kissed Mike it felt right but he thought about Abagail and then lied to himself about his feelings for Mike. He said feeling something for a woman is part of being alive, and that Matthew would know when the right woman comes along.

Tin Star/414 (TiSt)

When Matthew became sheriff, Sully defended his right to choose to Mike, noting that you cannot protect children except to give them the knowledge and skills to be able to make their own way. When Matthew advocated the elimination of guns in town, Sully tried to teach him other ways of fighting that he had learned in the mining camps and which gave him the advantage. He told Matthew that the way to be sheriff is to stop fights before they happen. He stood with Mike and the town to support Matthew against the gunslinger that came to get his brother out of jail.

If You Love Somebody/415 (IYLS)

In a father/son talk with Matthew, Sully agreed with him that women confused men, and that he probably would not feel the same way about another woman as he felt about Ingrid. Sully said that your heart will tell you when you love someone, and to just make sure it was your heart that is doing the talking. In a daughter/father talk with Colleen, he tried to get Colleen to express her thoughts about Matthew as sheriff dating Emma and what might make Matthew happy. In response to a question from Horace about Mike working after the baby is born, he said he would rather see Mike happy than anything else, and thus was not upset that Mike worked now or would after the baby. This convinced Horace to not object to Myra working at the bank.

The Iceman Cometh/416 (TIC)

Sully worked with Cloud Dancing to get Loren to sell the reservation's excess sweet corn at the store, and got Loren to agree to buy it at 40 cents per bushel, but Cloud Dancing believed he could have gotten more. He did not participate in the scandal, but witnessed its conclusion, telling Colleen they would get the money back somehow. He figured that the con men work in teams. When Mike and the Reverend returned from Denver with the money, he asked Mike if she had trouble playing a hungry pregnant woman.

Dead or Alive I and II/418/419 (DOA)

Mike and Sully had a wonderful moment talking about the baby, and Mike had Sully listen to the heartbeat of the baby through the stethoscope. When a legendary mountain man kidnapped a politician's son, Sully led the search party. Though Sully had never met McBride, Sully knew his reputation was one of honor. During the search, he endured taunts from Preston about his job and the coming baby in buckskin diapers. When Preston started talking about Mike's beauty, Sully attacked him. Sully had no respect for the politician because Sully knew he was only doing what is expedient. Sully confronted him on the use of the term "his word" when he promised to turn over a petition about statehood in return for his son and yet planed to continue working for statehood. Sully was tormented by the need to rescue the child for a despicable man, yet did not understand why McBride would have committed such an act. The trip was hazardous, Preston was injured and Sully used Cheyenne remedies to try and help him. The search party found McBride's Indian wife murdered, and Robert E reminded Sully that he had his own rules to live by. Sully sneaked off in the night to find McBride because the others would make too much noise. He found McBride, fought him, and in a struggle for the gun, McBride was shot and ran off. Sully cut Matthew and the boy free and then followed McBride. After a chase, Sully confronted McBride, and although McBride urged Sully to throw his tomahawk and finish the job, Sully wanted answers from McBride about why he took the child and murdered his wife. But before an answer came, Preston killed McBride for the reward. The trek homeward required Sully to carry an unconscious Preston to save his life. In Preston's recovery room, Sully was thanked by the politician but refused to shake his hand because of his lack of morals. In conversation with Preston, Sully agreed that McBride lost his way and paid with his life. Preston asked Sully why he saved Preston's life, and Sully answered that if Preston did not understand by now, he never would. At home, Sully learned that Mike almost lost the baby; she apologized to him for overworking and in forgiving her, Sully said that the baby would come soon and then things would get back to normal. Mike just smiled.

Deal with the Devil/417 (DWTD)

Sully completed the cradle for the baby and stained it rather than paint it white. When the Reverend explained his problem, Sully suggested that he collect all the small loans that he had given to various people over the years. Sully helped the Reverend fix up the church. In a conversation with Mike, Sully said that the Reverend was too concerned about what his old teacher would think. Sully was with the Reverend on the night before the visit when the Reverend almost confessed about the deal with Hank. When the townsfolk turned against the Reverend, Sully accompanied Brian in talking to Mike about how everyone might forgive the Reverend. Sully finished putting the new bell in the church tower.

Eye for an Eye/420 (EFAE)

Sully was in the café when a man was rude, tried to leave without paying and as Matthew tried to arrest him. During the melee, Mike wandered in and Sully and Matthew deflected the man's attention until Matthew could subdue him. Later, while playing ball with Brian, they saw Rosie walking toward town in a daze. Sully told Brian to get Dr. Mike and then approached the girl. When the town figured out the man in the jail might have killed a man and raped Rosie, Mike and Sully went to the jail and Sully read the papers found in Reed's clothes. Sully and Mike watched the trial and found no joy in the sentence of death for Reed. Sully refused to help build the gallows. Later, Mike asked Sully what his feelings were about capital punishment. Sully said that he does not have a need to change how people feel about things as Mike does. Sully did not want to execute Reed and said that Reed should be put in prison never to be let out. At Mike's objection that he might escape, Sully said that one should build better prisons, and while there are no guarantees, it would be a better way than taking a life. Sully said that folks would think they would feel better after Reed is put to death but vengeance did not make you feel better. He continued saying that he knew he had it in him to kill Reed during the incident at the café if Reed had hurt Mike in any way, but that was different because it was during an act of violence. When Reed was hung, his hands would be tied behind him and blindfolded and thus hanging was different from self-defense. In the end, Sully agreed with Mike that they wanted the children to be safe from men like Reed. Sully was there during the execution and comforted Colleen.

Hearts and Minds/421 (HAM)

Sully, Brian, Cloud Dancing and Looks for the Sun went hunting and learned that Looks for the Sun was Lakota and did not kill or eat deer or elk. When the government put the Reverend in charge of starting school on the reservation, Sully had concerns. He understood the need to learn reading and writing, for the children to have a choice, and noted the government was finally doing something. But he said that the new ways should not wipe out the old, and that children will not have a future if they don't have a past. He finally revealed his frustrations to Mike about his feelings of being ineffectual as Indian Agent. With her support, he acknowledged that he could not do anything else but keep trying. After the Reverend tried to baptize the children and Cloud Dancing objected, Sully stopped their fight and closed the school, only to be overruled by Hazen. Sully and Mike realized the solution was sharing everyone's culture within the school setting, encouraging each of the children, Cloud Dancing and the Reverend to share their own stories. They knew it would end someday, but did as much as they could now.

Reunion/422 (R)

Sully supported Mike when her best friend comes to town. He joked that Miriam saw a bear that was really a wash tub, and although it put up a fight, he scared it off. Sully took Miriam riding to see a deer and it's fawn. In a conversation with Brian, Sully talked of Daniel, his childhood best friend. Sully said Daniel and he headed west when they were young, that Daniel saved his life and that they like the woods better than the cities. Sully said, however, that he felt as if Daniel was always competing for jobs and things, and always wanted to do him one better. He said they argued about striking gold. Sully supported Mike in denying Colleen's wish to go to San Francisco but in private encouraged Mike to let her go. Sully counseled Mike when she expressed concern about Miriam's reaction to Mike's circumstances, and praised her when she said moving to Colorado was the best decision she ever made.

(Comments: in WTHI, Sully said he headed west all by himself and one could interpret here that they headed west separately as stated in HD (BeFr) and met up later in Shoal Creek, TN (ATM).)

Woman of the Year/423 (WOTY)

Mike was interviewed as a candidate for Colorado Territory Woman of the Year and Sully learned Hazen was coming to visit. Hazen would learn that Sully did not force the men to cut their hair, build log cabins, tear down the teepees or forbid medicine ceremonies. Sully considered Hazen's reaction, burnt the letters of instruction and resolved that he would continue doing what he had been doing. In contrast, Mike struggles to be perfect for her candidacy, and when Sully confronted her, confessed her fears of being imperfect. She saw that Sully paid a price for being himself, following his own conscience, to which Sully replied "I gotta live with myself first, I figure we all got to." Sully wore buckskins to church. He arranged for the children to stay with Matthew so they can have a delayed picnic supper to Midnight Lake, telling Mike that "The Man of the Year" had taken care of things.

Fear Itself/425 (FI)

Preston offered Mike the position of running the clinic at the new chateau and Sully the job of leading excursions for his guests and while Mike took time to consider the offer, Sully immediately rejected his. Mike confessed her fears to Sully that she was afraid to try and treat Isabel and yet wanted to be of help to her. Sully noted that Isabel had already made a decision not to take treatment. Later, Sully read all the journals and reports about leprosy yet still had serious misgivings about Mike treating her. He said that he knew Mike wanted to do right by Isabel, but the issue was more than that. Now, with the baby due, decisions had to be made in terms of what was right for everyone. Mike convinced him it was he who was giving in to his fears. When Isabel left so that people would not shun the clinic, Sully asked the townsfolk if anyone else would do any better than they did, and that the town did not do right by Isabel.

Last Chance/424 (LC)

Hazen arrived at the reservation just as a newcomer, Two Knives, stabs Cloud Dancing in a fight. Hazen was upset about the lack of progress for the reservation and the lack of communication from Sully. Hazen said Sully was allowing the Indians to set the agenda and that Sully had to take control. After he pulled Two Knives from the fight and took Cloud Dancing to town for treatment, Sully told Hazen that the troops would not help keep the peace to which Hazen agreed to send a new garrison. Sully gave blood to Cloud Dancing to help save his life, and Cloud Dancing noted that Sully cannot trust Two Knives because Two Knives cannot trust Sully. Sully warns Two Knives that the reservation will not change, the soldiers will not go away and that Two Knives had to find a way to make his life on the reservation work, and then Sully let him go free. Two Knives fought again, although in self-defense, and Hazen warned Sully that if he did not take control, he would be replaced. Sgt. O'Connor and his troops arrived at the reservation and promise order. Sully decided to send Two Knives to another reservation, to which Cloud Dancing observed that it could have been him being sent away. Back at the clinic, Mike told Sully that Matthew loves Emma, and Sully said he knew. They both confessed their fears of being unable to continue doing their jobs.

One Nation/426 (ON)

Relations with O'Connor started poorly when he demanded more Indians to help build the log cabins and Sully refused because he had given permission for the elders of the different tribes to have a meeting. O'Connor tried to break up the meeting and force the men to work. One ran away, followed by a soldier and then Cloud Dancing. The brave shot the soldier. Cloud Dancing took the blame. Sully confronted Cloud Dancing and said "From the day you found me half dead in the woods, you have always told me the truth, but today I know you are lying to me." Sully talked to the elders, looking for witnesses, and decided to have a council and let the Indians make a judgement about Cloud Dancing. O'Connor took the matter up the ranks and General Wooden told him that the army was in a state of war with the Indians and to take charge of the reservation and arrest Cloud Dancing. Before the elders could decide, O'Connor had Cloud Dancing removed and placed in jail. Sully objected at gunpoint and backed down only after Mike yelled at him to step aside. Cloud Dancing refused a lawyer and said Sully should speak for him, and finally told the truth to Mike and Sully. Cloud Dancing said his spirit was drained away at Washita, but now he had a purpose: to sacrifice himself to achieve peace between the tribes on the reservation. Although Sully wants to tell the truth, he said he could not go against what Cloud Dancing had decided. At the trial, Sully argued that since the army was in a state of war with the Indians, the dead soldier was a casualty of war and the act was not murder. He told the judge that if Cloud Dancing were convicted of murder, then all the soldiers who had killed Indians must be tried for murder as well. The judge dismissed the charges. Later, Sully asked Mike how long they would have peace on the reservation and Mike noted they had it for now.

When a Child is Born I and II/427/428 (WACIB)

There was peace on the reservation but O'Connor was wary of all the talk between the tribes. Cloud Dancing had a plan to sell beads at the train station. Meanwhile, Sully supported Mike in her final days of pregnancy. He told her that nothing was more important than her and the baby. But O'Connor went behind Sully's back and obtained orders to have Cloud Dancing transferred to a different reservation. The troops left the reservation before Sully could arrive with a telegram from Hazen who agreed to delay the move. Sully followed, first thinking the troops went to Tanner Flats, but found them headed east to East Fork. Sully confronted O'Connor, standing in front of the procession. O'Connor attacked him, cut him on the shoulder and pushed him down a steep bank. Sully broke his left tibia. Cloud Dancing tried to assist Sully who sent him away to escape. Instead, Cloud Dancing went after Mike and they searched together. They found Sully the next morning and he had tried to treat himself with Cheyenne remedies. As they were about to set his leg, O'Connor appeared and arrested Cloud Dancing. Mike stitched the gash and set the leg and as they were leaving for home, went into labor. Mike and Sully alternately gave each other courage, and Sully overcame his own fears to deliver the baby, cut the cord and handed her to Mike. Upon arriving in town, Sully introduced the townsfolk to Katharine Sully. At home, the kids took Katie, placed her in the cradle Sully made, and said "made by your Pa, our Pa" to which he was visibly moved. He told Mike that he was never so scared and never so happy in his whole life. Hazen fired Sully who told O'Connor that is was not over. He told Mike that the politicians had caved into the military, and that he would get Cloud Dancing back to the Palmer Creek Reservation. When Mike noted how beautiful Katie was, Sully said she was exactly as he expected.

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