Jack Richardson has been neglecting his duties as ranch foreman to go into town to gamble -- and worse, to lose. His wife, Anna Purdon, who owns the ranch, fires him and hires a series of foremen to manage the wild hands. All get driven off until Texas Guinan shows up and shows them that a calico dress can be tougher than chaps. Richardson, however, wants money for gambling, so he has his girlfriend get a tattoo like Texas'. They rob the ranch's safe and pin the job on Our Heroine.
This is a lively short subject, and here's the evidence that Texas Guinan was a woman who could ride a horse and be a good performer in a lively comedy. It's merely good, instead of excellent, because there are serious sequences in which she tries, unsuccessfully, to look soulful, her "star marketing" was that she was a rootin', tootin' Texan and real woman too, and the titles are over-written. Even so, there's a good deal of fun to be had in this one.