Padraig is the black sheep of the McCoy clan. Until now, his father's money has always bought him out of scrapes...but at last Padraig goes too far and finds himself a remittance man, paid by his father to leave home and never come back. Boarding a ship to America, the ne'er-do-well doesn't stop traveling until he comes to Nebraska's Great Plains. Finding a rancher willing to take a chance on hiring a greenhorn who knows nothing about cattle, Padraig sets out to become a cowboy, and that's when Fate deals Padraig McCoy a different set of cards. On a trail drive to Sedalia, the young wastrel's life is changed forever...