[1][2] As described in a film magazine review,[3] Lawrence Knight, a millionaire loafer, is rejected by his sweetheart Helen Wakefield because he has never done anything worthy of a man.

Although at first a tenderfoot, he masters the art of riding and roping and becomes a close friend of the foreman, Phil Acton.

After attending school in the east, Phil's sweetheart, Kitty Reid, returns to her father's ranch and, believing that she can no longer endure ranch life, tells Phil that she cannot marry him.

Phil becomes jealous of Knight and comes to believe that he is in league with a gang of cattle thieves.

During a trip to the hills, Phil is shot in the back and seriously wounded by a cattle thief.