在小镇上，一个年轻人游手好闲无所事事。他决定去纽约碰碰运气。影片讲述了1925年发生在美国西部牛仔的故事，风格搞笑幽默。
A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwhelmed by the life of the city. He decides to try his luck somewhere else after only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch and tries his luck as a cowboy, being in his own way very successful.
But he shows what he can do when the farm has to bring a 100 head of cattle to the slaughterhouses of Los Angeles to avoid going bankrupt, against the will of his neighbor who wants a better price. After a shootout with the neighbor's men, he becomes the only person on a Los Angeles bound train with 1000 cows...
