Broncho Billy is a typical bad man. The story opens with him shooting up a small town in the west, and scaring the inhabitants nearly to death. The sheriff with his deputies order him out of the country. Sunday morning, the congregation is in church singing. Boardman, another bad man, and his protégés, break up the meeting. The preacher is ousted. The members of the congregation write a letter to a neighboring minister, to come and preach the following Sunday. The bad men reads the letter and determines to stop him before he reaches town, which they do. Broncho Billy sees the preacher and determines to take his place, and so it is that he leads the bad men into church, makes them doff their hats and listen to the sermon. He proves himself a man and determines to be good himself, hereafter.