- Harry is thrown out of town and on his way across the desert meets a minister and his family; when the man is killed in an Indian raid, Harry takes care of his little daughter, later puts on the minister's frock and reforms a town.
- Cheyenne Harry, told to leave town, comes across a parson who has been killed by Indians and buries him. A little girl, the parson's daughter, hides in a bush. Cheyenne takes her to her Aunt Jane's houses and poses as the parson. The saloon owner and his pals laugh at Cheyenne when he is on his way to church and he beats them up. Cheyenne meets an old pal of his. Jane tells Cheyenne to leave her house; that he is an impostor. Just as he is about to do so, Cheyenne is told that the little girl is calling for him in her delirium and he goes to her. Because of the child's love for Cheyenne, Jane forgives him. For three Sundays no one comes to church, but finally Cheyenne changes his method. He raids the saloon and forces the people to sit through four hours of service because they didn't come before. He then "forces" a collection. He closes the saloon. The money he receives he gives to the girls from the saloon to start life anew, and wins Jane for a wife.—Universal Weekly, September 9, 1922
- Harry is in jail and is miserable. When the sheriff lets him out Harry asks what he was put in for. The sheriff tells him about his shooting up the town the night before and orders him out of the town. Indians on the warpath meet John Marks, the minister, with his three-year-old daughter. John hides the baby and tries to parley with them. One shoots him. Harry sees the act and arrives after the Indians have left. The baby begins to cry. Harry is startled. She doesn't like his clothes and asks him to dress like her father, which Harry does. In a pocket he finds a letter to John from Jane, his sister-in-law, urging him to come to Buckhorn. Harry arrives with the baby. Jane kisses him and he is embarrassed. He finds his new surroundings pleasant. But the next day trouble begins, when he and Jane meet Bill Young, one of his henchmen. Harry fights and Jane informs him he can't be her brother-in-law, for he would never have done such a thing; that he is unfit to touch his child again. Harry tries to explain. Suffering from the effects of the trip, little Elizabeth falls ill and constantly cries for daddy. The doctor urges Harry to go to the child and Jane is glad to have him quiet the restless baby. He tells Jane though he isn't much on preaching, he will see if he can't make Christians out of some of these coyotes. On the following Sunday the doors of the church are thrown open. The populace only laugh and continue their revelry. On the fourth Sunday Harry goes to the saloon and tells the crowd he has come to coax them to church. Some start to argue, but become silent when Harry fires and forces them to pass out the door, after depositing their guns. At church he informs them that, having missed preaching to them for three Sundays, they will have a four-hour session. When three hours are up and a man has fallen asleep Harry fires near him, and tells him that they are not to take the place for a rooming house, or they will find there is truth in what he is preaching about fire and brimstone. A hat is passed, but only a dime is given, so Harry stands at the door and makes everyone donate. All blame Jane, and the following night Bill, Vester and several Mexicans break into Jane's cottage and carry her away. The baby, missing Jane, goes to tell Harry Jane has gone. Harry follows the gang. Bill and Vester are shot and Harry rescues Jane. The next day Harry enters the saloon to tell its habitués Bill is dead and the place is closed. Harry divides the money he has taken from the safe among the girls and tells them to go straight. Later, putting his arms about Jane, he assures her that since Buckhorn "hit the trail" it won't be such an awful place after all.
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