Plot

Cowhand Lem Beason wins a shooting contest at a Western rodeo, and as a result is hired by railroad president Gregory Collins to return to Chicago with Collins to take charge of security for Collins' vaults. Lem is reluctant to go, but Collins' pretty niece Rose changes his mind. In Chicago, Lem finds a great deal of criminal activity, but none of it can get the best of him.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

Cowpuncher Lem Beeson attends a rodeo in Montana, and takes part in a shooting contest. He catches the eye of Gregory Collins, president of a railroad, who is attending with his daughter Janet. Collins' Chicago office has been robbed and his watchman killed. He approaches Lem with an offer to guard his property in Chicago, but Lem refuses. With Collins is a girl named Rose, a poor relative of the Collins family. When Lem meets her, he decides to accept Collins' offer and heads east. Carl Bruler, manager of the Collins Trust Co., informs Collins that powerful rivals are behind the robberies. He claims that there are certain valuable papers that would wreck the Collins Trust Co. Lem takes over the job of guarding the vault. But then he receives a mysterious note, warning him to leave. When Bruler learns of the threat, he arranges to have Lem sent to a café on a wild goose chase. Lem comes to the aid of a young woman being abused. However, this is part of the set-up. He is attacked, but beats off the thugs. During a party at the Collins' home, Janet decides to make Lem the butt of a joke, and coaxes him onto the dance floor. Lem is so embarrassed that Rose helps him escape. Rose is verbally abused by Janet, so Rose tells Lem what happened. Lem admits he is sick of his new life and wants to return west. Janet interrupts and tells Lem that her father wishes to see him. Len says he is going to quit, but agrees to go to the office in the morning. Bruler puts the valuable papers in the vault, and arranges for a new watchman that night. The office is attacked, and the watchman is overpowered; but an alarm is set off in the Collins home. Out of the darkness of the vault, the crooks here "Stand still and get a handful of the sky." When Collins and the police arrive, they find Lem has taken Bruler prisoner, one crook is dead and the other is wounded. Collins offers Lem anything he wants. Lem asks for Rose's hand in marriage. The couple head back to Montana to live on their new ranch, a gift from Collins.