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Bob Fleming, cowboy and U. S. marshal, is racing a train on horseback. From the train pretty Barbara Benton attempts to take a photograph of him, but as she leans forward her hat blows out the window. Bob catches the hat and leaps onto the train, but he is stopped by a porter. Bob pulls his gun in order to make the man step aside. The passengers, seeing this action, assume it to be a holdup and deposit their valuables in the hat. Arriving at the ranch, Barbara learns that Bob works there as a hand. The sheriff, who is also attracted to Barbara, arrests Bob as a cattle thief. Barbara, learning that the sheriff and her father are the leaders of a group of thieves, is forced to testify falsely that Bob is a train robber, and he is sentenced to be hanged. She herself is taken by the sheriff as hostage. But Bob escapes, forms a posse, kills the sheriff, and frees Barbara.

Sam Corwin, stage line owner and camp bully, makes unwelcome love to Polly, daughter of an old prospector. The old man drives him off the place at gunpoint and Sam conspires to have the old man sent to prison. He stages a fake hold-up, leaving the old man's hat on the scene. This is managed with the connivance of one of Sam's stage drivers. By one of those far-fetched coincidences of the screen the whole plot is unfolded to a stranger in those parts, and he impersonates the hold-up artist, double-crossing the plotters, vindicating the old man, overthrowing the villains, and in the end winning the girl.