Summary
A silk-scarfed sybarite is hurled from Gatsby-grade opulence into the sun-cracked crucible of the frontier; Greek Conniston, golden progeny of a copper-baron patriarch, must trade champagne for calloused palms when his tycoon father slams the vault shut. Riding westward beside the sardonic Roger Hapgood, he collides with Argyl Crawford—her gaze as sharp as barbed wire and twice as dangerous—on her father’s drought-cursed spread. Smitten, Greek volunteers for the branding chutes and hay-bale infernos, toppling Brayley, the ranch’s swaggering Goliath, and earning the cowboys’ grudging reverence. A colossal irrigation dam—Crawford’s bet against the desert—looms as both promise and powder keg; Greek inherits the gargantuan task when foreman Bat Truxton sells his marrow for rival coin. Meanwhile Hapgood, now lackey to the land-grabbing syndicate, sabotages friendships and fuse lines alike. Dynamite shreds concrete and loyalty, yet Greek—mud-caked, sleepless, disowned—rebuilds the breached wall with Promethean fury, turning arid dustbowl into emerald quilt and sealing both the valley’s future and Argyl’s defiant heart.
Synopsis
Greek Conniston, after living a life of ease and comfort, is forced by his millionaire father to get a job and earn his own living. While traveling West with his friend Roger Hapgood, Greek meets Argyl Crawford and, entranced by the girl, takes a job on her father's ranch. Greek's defeat of Brayley, the bully of the ranch, gains him the respect of the men. Crawford is about to erect a dam, an enterprise which will reclaim all of the land in the region, and Greek is given the chance to assist the foreman, Bat Truxton. Hapgood in the meantime works for the opposition which is trying to prevent the dam from being completed. Truxton is bought off and Greek takes over the job. He overcomes all obstacles and continues to work for the benefit of Crawford, even against his own father. As a last effort, the opposition blows up the dam, but Greek continues to work night and day, finishes the dam and wins Argyl's hand in marriage.
