A wild, harum scarum cowgirl is the “Rose” of the ranch. We see her fist shooting the hats off the heads of the lined up boys. Though widely sought, she refuses offers of marriage galore, but when handsome young Wilbur Newbury comes forward, she accepts him and from then on undergoes a complete change. A few months later she develops into a meek, gentle and loving wife to a husband who adores her. Charitable to almost a fault, the entire neighborhood loves her, and when any of the boys get wounded by stray gunshots, they come to Rose for medical aid. In this instance, Mose, the half-breed, is struck through the hand by a stray bullet, and he at once solicits the attendance of the Newburgs, who accept him in their household until the wound is healed. Tearing off the bandage, the half-breed announces himself cured, and is going to return to his shack in the mountains. For the protection of his still-weak hand, Newburg gives him his gauntlets, and Mose, putting one on, tenders promises of grateful service should they ever require it, and then departs. He stops on the way, however, to let Rancher Coigne’s little girl play with his braids. They are interrupted by the irate father of the child who provokes a quarrel. A gun is drawn in the scuffle, which explodes and causes the death of Coigne and the disappearance of the half-breed. The boys start in pursuit of the offender and in examining the dead body, espy a glove lying nearby. It is one of Newburg’s gauntlets. This renders damaging evidence. Despite the earnest protestation of Newburg and his wife, he is led away by the sheriff. Wild with grief, the little woman bethinks herself of the half-breed, who received the gauntlet, and concludes that he is the slayer. Jumping upon her horse, she dashes to the scene of the crime, and then picking up the trail, rides madly off to seek the real murdered and thus save her husband. Mose strongly dissents against returning to justice, but later succumbs to her womanly and tearful appeal for his gratitude and for her husband, and then consents to go back. Then commences a race against death, for Newburg has been sentenced by his captors to death by rope. The wife and half-breed fairly fly over space and their efforts are not in vain to stop the execution of the innocent, as they arrive not a minute too soon. With the explanations exchanged, the men are satisfied to liberate the one for the other, and thereby preserve the law of justice.