Nancy Evans, an circus owner with no idea, has a ranch that she has never visited but is unwilling to sell to Mike Abbott for sentimental reasons. Her partners, who are secretly working with Abbott, sabotage the circus in order to force Nancy to sell the ranch. Instead, she decides to go and live there. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be able to outsmart the deceitful swindlers? And what is so valuable about the rundown ranch?