With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.

A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwhelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries his luck as a cowboy, being in his own way very successful. But he shows what he can do when the farm has to bring a 100 head of cattle to the slaughterhouses of Los Angeles to avoid going bankrupt, against the will of his neighbour who wants a better price. After a shoot-out with the neighbour's men he's the only person on a Los Angeles bound train with 1000 cows..—Stephan Eichenberg <[email protected]>

A Silent Era Buster Keaton comedy. A down-on-his-luck young man in Indiana sells all he owns and jumps the first freight train he can find. He ends up on a cattle ranch in the west. He's totally unsuited to be a ranch hand but he's so desperate he'll try anything.—grantss