French settlers are granted asylum in America in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and a Kentucky rifleman finds himself falling for one of the newcomers - a general's daughter. However, he faces a rival for her affections in the form of a ruthless landowner who plans to steal the terrritory her fellow exiles have settled on. George Waggner's Western, starring John Wayne, Vera Hruba Ralston, Philip Dorn and Oliver Hardy.

John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.