Without a doubt, Harold stretches his father's patience to the breaking point by staying out, at a dance hall, later than expected.  Despite his mother's pleas, Father orders sonny boy to pack up, to be shipped West to his uncle's ranch the next day.  Uncle's ranch is near Piute Pass, where it's considered very bad form to shoot the same man twice in the same day.

The first person to meet Harold is Mildred, whose daddy is sick.  They just arrived, too, in Piute Pass.  "Tiger Lip" Tompkins, bully de luxe, wants the girl, and to help her make up her mind, he locks her ill father in a room over the saloon.  Always eager to rescue beautiful damsels in distress, Harold volunteers as her champion.