 Rancher Tex Blaine(Jack Hoxie) and his pals decide to give skinflint Dan Allen(William Burt), owner of the Custer Merchantile Company, a fright by kidnapping him and running him out of town.At Allen s ranch,Tex lassoes Allen s visiting niece,Mary Ann Perkins(Kaye Edwards), by mistake and apologizes by proposing marriage. Tex leaves town with the Custer sheriff(Bob Fleming) in hot pursuit but doesn t know the sheriff only wants to give him a letter.Tex is joined by the self-proclaimed trouble-seeking trouble busters Skinny Cassidy(Harry Todd) and Windy Wallace(Ben Corbett)and the three ride to Placerville, where Big Bill Jarvis(Slim Whitaker)is drunkenly breaking up the saloon.Tex whips Jarvis and then the impressed Jarvis gives him a job on the Bar-X ranch.Jarvis is after an oil strip on the adjoining Bar-Y ranch where Skinny and Windy have secured jobs and tell Tex that the ranch is owned by Mary Ann.Since the strip is up for grabs, Tex reaches it first and stakes a claim much to the dismay of Mary Ann and her cousin Jim Perkins(Lane Chandler.)The sheriff catches up with Tex and the letter informs him he has inherited the Bar-X.Mary Ann and Jim discover that Tex, their new neighbor, has filed the strip claim in her name.Writer Oliver Drake,in later years,said he "borrowed" the plot premise from Universal s 1932 "The Fourth Horseman" with Tom Mix, and "re-wrote" it as a mostly tongue-in-cheek comedy minus any players who could do comedy other than William Burt.Universal remade "The Fourth Horseman" as "Ghost Town Riders" with Bob Baker and "Gold Strike" with Tex Williams and, in 1940,writer William Lively "lifted" Drake s "Trouble Busters" version and used it for "Death Rides the Range" with Ken Maynard.