The story
“May and Grace Gray, daughters of Edgar Gray, a wealthy ‘gentleman farmer’ living in Westchester County near New York City, are much amused when they receive a letter from a young English cousin, in which the young man announces that he is coming to New York to hunt buffalo and to take a few pot shots at bally Indians. Having notified a score or more of their friends and acquaintances in the Westchester Country Club, the girls prepare to receive the young man in a manner befitting his expectations. Dressed as cowgirls they lasso the young man as he comes down the gangplank, and hurry him into an automobile. Once out in Westchester County, the excitement begins. Chapman is told by the girls that ‘father has gone to hunt the Indians who killed mother, but will return presently.’ On the way home, several decrepit cows and an old bull, with papier maché buffalo heads imposed upon them, are chased across the pastures in a thrilling ‘buffalo hunt.’ Chapman and the girls soon afterward meet some very bad cowboys who pretend to dislike the young Englishman’s looks. As a matter of fact, the ‘cowboys’ are brokers’ clerks and young college men home on vacation. The cowboys, however, come to the defense of the Gray home when it is attacked by ‘Indians.’ A desperate battle ensues, and smoke bombs make Chapman feel sorry that he ever left the steamship pier for the wild life of the ‘frontier.’ Eventually, of course, when Mr. and Mrs. Gray return home, Chapman discovers that he has been spoofed. Being a sensible young man he takes his discomfiture goodnaturedly.”
Summary from Reel Life · 21 March 1914
