Bobbs, a meek citizen, spends a miserable life with his militant wife, Henrietta, and so he disappears. Arriving in a small western town, he sees Bloody Bill, a "bad" man, shoot up a saloon and gather up the gold and silver. He believes that Bloody Bill's game is easy, and resolves to do likewise. Henrietta receives a telegram stating that her uncle in the west, had bequeathed her his ranch, and she sets forth to take possession. When she arrives at the ranch, she puts the cowboys to wont, and they appeal to Bobbs, now known as a "bad man," who tells the boys that he can lick any woman. At the ranch Bobbs is confronted by no less a person than his. Henrietta, who, after taking his artillery from him, makes him foreman of the ranch.
—Moving Picture World synopsis