Livestock inspectors Gene Autry and Frog Millhouse are accused of favoritism when they try to help an old rancher and his attractive daughter whose cattle appear have hoof and mouth disease and are doomed to be destroyed. With the aid of a friendly elephant, Gene and Frog uncover the truth. Gene Autry and the Rodeoliers sing "I'm Gonna Round Up My Blues." Gene and June Storey sing "Moonlight on the Ranch House." Gene sings "Big Bull Frog." Smiley Burnette sings "There's Nothing Like Work."
Hired as a radio singer, singing cowboy Gene Autry soon discovers the show's sponsor is a crooked oil company cheating, among others, an orphanage on the Mexican border. With the aid of a music-loving bandit, Gene and Smiley Burnette ride to the rescue.
When Deputy Sheriff Gene Autry agrees to become the guardian of a dying friend's three young sons from Chicago, he soon learns that the boys are a pack of ruffians and not the least bit impressed with cowboys and ranch life.
Gene Autry is the ranch foreman for Maureen McClure and must protect her interests when rival ranchers and a gambler attempt to steal the rodeo franchise away from her Silver Saddle Ranch.
Ranch foreman Gene Autry, with the help of Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), turns the Circle J Ranch into a dude ranch to help an old friend fool his daughter's rich fiancé into believing he is a wealthy rancher.
A British youngster inherits a ranch so burdened with taxes that he struggles to keep the property. Gene Autry befriends the boy, and becomes involved with an Army colonel's daughter and others.
A spoiled gal inherits a ranch that Gene Autry manages. She makes plans to marry a Chicago cattle broker and convert it into a dude ranch. The fiance is a racketeer who wants to get rid of Gene!
Gene Autry and his pal Frog come to the aid of ranchers and townfolk who are swindled by fake mining promoters into buying parcels of a ghost town with the promise of electricity from Boulder Dam.
Gene Autry is a horse trader who is threatened when an unscrupulous tractor company starts selling to farmers. Gene and his band perform on radio for pay, and are tricked into endorsing the tractors!
Cattleman Gene Autry learns that a gal rancher will raise sheep on a "scientific basis." He discourages her, as sheep will ruin the land. Gene and Smiley devise a plan to get her to move back East.