Tre arbetslösa stumfilmsskådespelare får ett gig: de ska åka till en mexikansk by för att spela westernhjältar. Vad de inte vet är att deras motspelare, banditerna, är riktiga.
A crooked real estate manipulator sells worthless land on mortgage to flood refugees, then tries to profit by reselling the land to the state, committing murder in the process, as the Three Mesquiteers work to bring him and his gang to justice.
A partial remake of and using footage from 1941's "Rawhide Rangers" this Western short is about a ranger who pretends to turn outlaw in order to track down the gang who killed his brother, also a ranger.