Drama written by the film's star Linda Arvidson, under her married name Linda Griffith, was her both her final screenplay and film appearance.

Will Clayton is superstitious. He is ridiculed for his superstitions, fired for them, gets involved in a murder mystery, is captured by bandits, despised by the girl, but he clings to his amulets and his horseshoe. Finally, when the girl agrees to marry him if he throws away her silly amulets and horseshoe, he takes her in his arms, throws a horseshoe out the window, and it knocks the gun out of his rival's hand just as he is about to shoot.

Montgomery Jackson is initially afraid of conflict, refusing to enlist despite pressure from friends and his fiancée Bettie, but later joins the American Expeditionary Force after Bettie volunteers as a Red Cross nurse.