The story of a gentle, unsure young woman who grows in maturity and self-reliance as she travels across the American plains in 1848 in a wagon train with her young husband and his family.
From Il Cinema Ritrovato: "We do not find all the scènes comiques of 1907 very comic, but sometimes we really have to laugh. Babies fly through the air like footballs; furniture is enthusiastically demolished; Little Tich shoots a coquettish look from his old man’s face out to us: the mechanism of the comic effects still functions impeccably a hundred years later"
Jim Blake, the playboy son of a New York millionaire, heads west to prove himself a man. He goes to work on his father's ranch in Wyoming, and eventually wins over the locals by turning the tables on a town bully and trying to collect damages from a railroad magnate, whose trains have killed many of the Blake ranch's cattle. When the railroad refuses to pay, Jim comes up with a plan that will make them pay far more than they originally had to. Problems arise when he falls in love with Alice, the railroad magnate's daughter.
Following a political coup in the Balkan kingdom of Roxenburg, young King Alexis and his American governess Janet Holbrooke flee to America. Out west, Tom Potter, a rancher, gives them shelter.