After young Robert Wade throws a lavish party at the family ranch, his father, Dent Wade, sends Bob to California to mend his wastrel ways by making a success of the family's faltering ranch in California. During the trip, Bob and his friend, Chub Biggs, are robbed of their papers. Upon their arrival at the ranch, they discover that manager Russ DeLaine is not happy that they have come. Unknown to Bob and his father, DeLaine has been embezzling the ranch profits. When two of DeLaine's men become rough with Bob and Chub, DeLaine's daughter Margy intervenes, and soon she and Bob fall in love. Sometime later, after Bob finds his stolen papers in DeLaine's safe, he gives them to Chub to take to the local sheriff. Meanwhile, Blacky, one of DeLaine's henchmen, kidnaps Margy. Bob comes to her rescue, knocking Blacky into a pit during a fight. As he is dying, Blacky informs Bob that DeLaine is not Margy's real father. Later, Bob proves himself to his newly arrived father and the sheriff when he captures the escaping DeLaine.