Prospectors discover gold on the outskirts of Rawhide, a small town in the far west. Reuben Glen, a prospector, living in the next county, becomes discouraged and determines to try his luck elsewhere. When he arrives at Rawhide he is gently but firmly requested to remove himself immediately from the vicinity. He refuses emphatically, but is saved from the infuriated prospectors by his young daughter, whom the men later christen as "The Rawhide Queen." They heap laurels upon her head by naming the new mine after her and her father is made "one of them."