- The civilized inhabitants of a formerly "wild" western town scramble to recreate the town's rough and rowdy heyday in order to indulge the fantasies of a rich newcomer.
- A rich young Easterner who has always wanted to live in "the Wild West" plans to move to a Western town. Unknown to him, the town's "wild" days are long gone, and it is an orderly, civilized place now. The townsmen, not wanting to lose a rich potential resident, contrive to make over the town to suit the young man's fantasy.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Jeff Hillington, a New Yorker and heir to a railroad, loves the wild west. Trouble is, he imagines it as it was in the 1880s. When he decides to take a trip to Bitter Creek, Arizona, his father arranges that everything will look like it did in 1880, but to protect everyone from accident, everybody packing a pistol will only carry blanks. The local Indians, tired of their lot, get wind of the charade and attack the town with real bullets. It falls to Jeff to get from the saloon to his cache of arms through a hail of bullets, get arms back to the townfolks, and subdue the uprising. Does true love await his heroism?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
- As a result of dime novel reading Jeff Hillington, a young man of education, frets along within the confines of the crowded city in anticipation of the day when he will sit astride a broncho and shoot Indians in the west. What then could be more fortunate than a visit by a committee from Bitter Creek, Arizona, to induce Jeff's father, a railroad president, to run a line through the town connecting the borax mines with the outer world? Here is the opportunity which Jeff has been longing for and his father commissions the adventure-seeking youth to investigate the proposition. In the company of the real westerners, Jeff is thrilled although he is disappointed in their ordinary store clothes. However, he consoles himself by deciding that they feel as though they must dress up when in New York. The committee soon realizes the young man's mania and finds it difficult to refrain from laughing when Jeff tells of his ambitions. The matter is settled and the committee departs, leaving Jeff to secure an extensive outfit for his sojourn in the land of wild Indians. At Bitter Creek the committee advises its fellow citizens of Jeff's coining and a special program is arranged in which scenes of the west are to be depicted as the city youth pictures them. Matters take a more serious turn, however, when Steve Shelby, a grafting Indian agent learns of the affair and decides to take advantage of it. Knowing that he is about to be caught by the government in his lawless pursuits, Shelby decides to turn one more trick and then to cross the border into Mexico. At the town hall he hears a plan for a spectacular hold-up to be staged for Jeff's benefit and enters into the idea, stating that he will help out by having his Indians perform an uprising. Jeff arrives and a whole program of western stunts is commenced. He falls in love with Nell Larrabee, a girl of the plains whose chief excitement hitherto has been the repeated refusal of Shelby's proposals of marriage. The time of the uprising arrives and Shelby prepares for the execution of his plans which result in real tragedy. The Indians appear on the scene, and soon the people begin to realize that the joke has become a serious matter. In place of blank cartridges the red men are using real bullets, and in the midst of the excitement Nell is kidnapped by Shelby. The entire crowd is kept in the dance hall surrounded by the howling Indians, while Shelby starts for Mexico with the girl. The matter is explained to Jeff, who rounds up the band of Indians, rescues the girl, completely foils Steve, and becomes the hero of the hour.
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