While Pat and a neighboring ranch hands race wagons, Gene rides to the rescues and stops them fron being ambused by T Bar C men. Reb Stearns starts a fight with elderly telegraph operator, Pop Wallace, for replacing a fake telegram for one Gene sent in about T Bar C's new owner, Jim Eastman. Jim has his daughter have Gene sign a blank piece of paper to uphold the telegram. Being suspicious, Pop gives her the fake one. The telegram Gene sent in explains that Jim is really a swindling oil promoter. Jim then escapes in a chuck wagon, but Gene and Pat are hot on his trail, and bring him in.

Sheriff Higgins of Dry Gulch, calls Gene and PAt in for help, due to the fact that he might lose his badge, having to eal with a gang of outlaws and a gambler. While Gene listens to Higgins, Pat tells his tall tales to two boys outside. After hearing Pat's story, two outlaws kidnap Pat, with Gene on their trail. Gene is captured too, and the two are taken to Snap Larkin, who believes Pat knows where an outlaw buried money he stole in bank robberies. Gene tells him one of his men hit Pat in the head with the butt-end of a pistol, and now Pat fakes amnesia. Snap offers the two to stay with them until Pat ""recovers"". While alone, Gene and Pat continue to plan an escape. Eventually, when the outlaws are unsuspecting, Gene rounds them up and bring them in, destroying the gambler's scheme of taking over Cartersville.