Edythe Bellaires is a guest at a Colorado mountain hotel, and she is engaged to be married to Percy DeYoung, a wealthy Eastern fop, who is given to flirting. John Hunter, a mining engineer, loves Kate Dawson, a dashing western belle. Edythe's horse runs away from her and she is saved from harm by John Hunter, whose courage and manly bearing attract the girl, bored by Percy's cool manner of courtship. Kate Dawson sees Edythe and John walking together and becomes very jealous. She determines to teach John a lesson and she flirts with Percy. John sees his sweetheart flirting with the Easterner and determines to teach her a lesson, he flirts with Edythe. The lovers meet, each with the other's charmer, and then war is declared. In a very funny scene Kate swears vengeance on Edythe and her papa interferes. Then John meets Percy on top of a cliff. Words lead to a fight and in a thrilling scene Percy falls over the cliff. John, believing that Percy is dead, runs away. But Percy has fallen into a clump of bushes, and he is rescued by some miners. Haunted by visions of his imaginary crime, John returns, and coming face to face with Percy, John believes that he is seeing a ghost, and he runs away, followed by his sweetheart Kate, who captures him after an exciting foot race. Kate explains and the lovers are happy.