Charley Bicker, a blacksmith with more brawn than brains, orders a mail-order bride from Boston. On the day of her scheduled arrival, the entire town of Calico turns out at the railroad depot to greet her, but she is not on the train. Despondent, Charley decides to leave Calico County, but the townspeople, who depend on his services, devise a plan to convince him to stay. Staunch, the unofficial mayor, persuades Sadie, a bar girl at the local saloon, to pose as the missing bride from Boston. The drunken Charley does not recognize her, and at first Sadie goes along with the scheme, but when Roger Hand, Sadie's boyfriend, tries to provoke Charley into a gunfight, she returns to the saloon, and the angered townspeople throw Roger into jail. Kittrick, a nearsighted bounty hunter, arrives in Calico and is told that Roger is an outlaw; when Roger is banished from the town, Kittrick follows him. Charley, given a second chance, is informed of Sadie's whereabouts by the townswomen, who are eager to have Sadie married; when he goes after her, she punches him in the mouth. A minister arrives and performs the marriage ceremony as Sadie tends his wound.
