Barbed wire is brought to the open range, and the ranchers are urged to fight against it. Harry Shannon secretly plans to bring sheep into the territory but forgets to count in Gene Autry, who makes certain nothing dishonest goes on for very long.

Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys are falsely arrested as musical bank bandits. Released by police as decoys to locate the loot, the boys find themselves in trouble with gangsters in search of the money.