Broncho Billy is a foreman on Roger Newman's ranch and is in love with his daughter, Mae. Newman finds this out, discharges Broncho Billy and sends Mae to visit her brother in the east. Broncho Billy kidnaps Mae from the stage coach and they marry, squatting on Newman's land. Newman finds this out, not that Broncho has married Mae, but that he has squatted on his land. He intends to get even, so takes Mae's pony and puts it in Broncho Billy's corral. He then accuses Broncho Billy of horse stealing, but is nonplussed when he finds that Mae and Broncho Billy are married. Mae saying, "And, besides, father, a man wouldn't steal his own wife's horse." Newman forgives them and the story ends happily.