Driven to distraction by an insufferable suitor, Ruth Collins decides to escape his attentions for the summer by accepting her uncle's long-standing invitation to visit his cattle ranch in the West. She invites her best friend, Bella Rockler, to be her companion and they board a train headed West. By the end of the long rail journey Ruth, detesting everything she has seen, heard, or smelled west of Chicago, is in a very bad temper. So bad that she is starting to wonder if the cure isn't worse than the disease. To cap it all off, a fellow passenger on the train, whose appearance and odd...