在小镇上，一个年轻人游手好闲无所事事，于是他决定去纽约碰碰运气。影片讲述了1925年发生在美国西部牛仔的故事，风格搞笑幽默。
A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city, so decides to try his luck somewhere else after a only a few minutes in New York. He falls off a train near a ranch, where he tries his luck as a cowbowy, being in his own way very sucessful. But he shows what he can do when the farm has to bring a 100 head of cattle to the slaughterhouses of Los Angeles to avoid going bankrupt, against the will of his neighbour who wants a better price. After a shoot-out with the neighbour's men he's the only person on a Los Angeles bound train with 1000 cows....

在一个晴朗的日子里，有些木讷呆板的青年（巴斯特·基顿 Buster Keaton 饰）和美丽的女孩（费里丝·海佛 Phyllis Haver 饰）来到野外探险。这两个不知天高地厚的年轻人都对自己的野外生存技巧过于自信，并且不讲对方放在眼里。青年坐着独木舟在湍流中航行，甚至像模像样地读起书，当然他难免遭受翻船的磨难；女孩希望靠自己的力量伐树，却由于缺乏经验而被压在了树底下，哀声连连；与此同时，青年又操起了猎枪，准备在女孩面前大显身手，殊不知一头身形庞大的狗熊悄悄跟在了身后。
他们的野外生活充满了危险和乐趣，也满是浓郁到化不开的浪漫……

Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr. Mathilda West, who has degrees in lots of things, but turns out to be disruptively attractive as well.