 O-C Ranch Cowhand Wally Weldon (Wally Wales) has a confrontation with his foreman, Long-Rope Wheeler (the western Robert Walker), over a practical joke Wheeler pulled on the town s Chinese laudryman. Wally and his pal Shorty (Bobby Dunn) are riding back to the ranch and run across Jim Bradley (Buzz Barton), a teen-ager searching for his long-missing father. They bring him back to the ranch where he is hired on as a cook s helper.Ranch owner Colonel Sterner (Lafe McKee),father of Wally s sweetheart Betty (Virginia Brown Faire) is taken with the boy and, although fond of Wally, fires him over the dispute with Wheeler. Jim overhears the plot between Wheeler and the ranch cook (George Gerwin) to rob Sterner, and is shot by the cook. While the doctor (John Ince) attends Jim, a photo reveals he is the son of Sterner.Wally, learning of the plot, captures the cook in town and forces his confession to Sheriff Cole (Hank Bell.) The wires are cut when he phones the ranch, and he is off to the ranch where Shorty and Jim are under siege by Wheeler and his henchmen.