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In the 1880's, as the Santa Fe rail line expands westward
into the American frontier, Harvey House restaurants open one after another
at train stops along the way. Hoping to find work at Harvey's newest
restaurant in Sand Rock, New Mexico, young women from all over the country
board trains for the small Western town. With few exceptions, most of
the young women traveling to Sand Rock are going there to work for the
Harvey House. Susan Bradley, however, is going there to meet H.H.
Hartsey, an eloquent letter-writer whom she has never met, but has consented
to marry.
En route to Sand Rock, Susan befriends some of the
waitresses. Soon after arriving in Sand Rock, Susan meets the rough
hewn Hartsey, but they both immediately agree that they are mismatched and
call off the wedding. When Hartsey tells Susan that his letters were
written by Ned Trent, co-owner of the Alhambra Saloon, she marches over
there and calls Ned a "yellow dog." Trent tries to make amends with
Susan by offering to pay her way back to Ohio, but she refuses to take his
money and promises to run him and his disreputable saloon out of town.
Soon after taking a job at the Harvey House, Susan proves her
resolve to get tough with the Alhambra when she bursts into the saloon with
two six-shooters, and demands the return of meat stolen from the Harvey
House.
One night, when Alhambra men fire a shot into the Harvey
Girls' dormitory, Susan and other waitresses declare that the feud between
the two establishments has officially begun. Susan sets out to find
the culprit and, at the Alhambra, she is confronted by Em, a sharp-witted,
jealous barmaid who is in love with Ned. Susan later finds Ned alone
in a remote valley, and the two spark a romance. They seal their love
with a kiss and return to town, where Ned, hearing screams coming from the
Harvey House, shoots a rattlesnake that was placed there by his nefarious
business partner, Judge Sam Purvis. Ned warns Purvis to stop harassing
the Harvey Girls but, when plans are announced to move the Alhambra to
Flagstaff, Arizona, Purvis sets fire to the restaurant.
The Harvey Girls lose their restaurant in the blaze but Ned
sees to it that they are able to reopen it in the Alhambra saloon. As
the employees of the Alhambra prepare to leave Sand Rock for Flagstaff, both
Susan and Ned decide at the last minute to leave their work and start a new
life together. In the confusion of the train station, however, Susan
and Ned nearly miss each other. Em, who has a change of heart,
reunites the couple by pulling the emergency brake cord to stop the train. |
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