The Major boasts to the Adventurer's Club that he finally has a secret weapon to catch the elusive Snagglepuss. The weapon is Snuffles, a canine who will run any risk, brave any terrors, for a dog biscuit. But the Major's parsimony is his undoing. He gives Snuffles only half a dog biscuit.

There’s a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier. But as disaster strikes on the trail, Buck just might discover that these women are stronger than he thinks.