Railway engineer Casey Perkins returns, trying to beat a competing rail line by getting into a city first. The circus agrees to help him, but Indians attack believing that the train brings evil spirits with it.

Two con men join the circus, but one of them has a change of heart when he meets the orphans who are receiving the benefit money they plan to steal.

Mountain folk Lem and Jody Clemens decide to join the circus, even though they don't have any acts.