 In Chicago, Dorothy Bryant (Dale Evans) and her Melody Maids - Wanda (Peggy Stewart), the guitarist, trumpet player Jackie (Beverly Loyd), Babe (Jill Browning), the clarinet player - are in rehearsal for a show that has to suspend for lack of cash. Dorothy has inherited a ranch in Utah, which she has never seen,but she decides to sell to raise money for the show, and she and the girls and Stella Mason (Vivien Oakland), the wardrobe woman head west. Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers) has been managing the Bax X for Dorothy, with the Sons of the Pioneers (Bob Nolan, Tim Spencer, Hugh Farr, Karl Farr, Ken Carson and Pat Brady) as ranchhands, and the well-equipped, profitable Bar X is a far cry from the rundown, rocky ranch that adjoins it that belongs to Roy s friend Gabby Whittaker (George Hayes). Cattle broker Ben Bowman (Grant Withers) approaches Roy with a proposition to fleece Dorothy and spilt the profits, and Roy has a fight with Bowman and his henchman Steve Lacey (Hal Taliaferro, who was several light years past being known as Wally Wales). When the girls arrive, Roy is dismayed to learn that Dorothy intends to sell the ranch, and to restrain her from such a foolish action as getting rid of a profitable ranch, he and Gabby and the Pioneers trick her into believing that Gabby s run-down spread is the Bar X. When Bowman and Lacey learn of Roy s ruse, they use it to their own advantage. While Roy and the others are arranging a welcome for Dorothy at the real Bar X, she, still thinking Gabby s ranch is the one she owns, sells out to Bowman at a price far below the value of the Bar X, and she and the girls depart for Chicago. Roy and his men follow and the semi-ending is a fight in the Chicago stockyards involving them and the swindlers who have shipped Dorothy s cattle there for sale.