Story Analysis:

A Non-Stop Female Buddy Action Western.

Two spirited and independent cowgirls embark on a whimsical crime spree across the Wild West. Dogged by former members of their own gang (men, of course), they are framed for a murder they didn't commit, and end up hiding from the hangman by joining the very posse that is hunting for them. Leading them on a merry chase, their escape is further complicated when one of them falls for the Sheriff, an act that threatens not only their lives, but their friendship.

STORY SYNOPSIS:

The century turns, 1899 becomes 1900, and the world changes yet again. The Wild West is slowly being tamed. Town by town law and order is winning the day over the tyranny of the outlaw.

But try telling that to Cassidy Longebaugh and she'll shoot you where you stand. Cass is an outlaw, just like her father before her. And like her father, she is not some mindless thief and killer, but an artist in the redistribution of wealth – from your pocket into hers.

She has conned her way onto the New Year's Eve party train of the rich and famous with an elaborate scam to rob them blind. And her plan works perfectly, until she meets her match, a seductive and beguiling Chinese woman, Wu Hongmei, who is also out to rob the train.

Nearly captured by the handsome and relentlessly righteous Sheriff Idaho Pike, they are forced to jump from the train together and make their way to a rendezvous with Cass' confederates, Utah Flynn, a heartless, slovenly hired gun, and Minnesota, an old cowpoke who likes his campsite neat and orderly and finds robbing less stressful than ranching.

Utah challenges Cass to a duel for the leadership of the gang. She reminds him that there is no gang, he is only a hired hand. He insists on the fight, but she is better with a gun, better with a knife, better at everything than he is, which only serves to make him madder. Hongmei referees as Cass and Utah battle it out with quarterstaffs.

Utah is losing, badly, until he starts fighting dirty. Then he nearly kills Cass and Hongmei. He leaves them stranded in the wilderness, takes the loot, and Cassidy's gun, her only remembrance from her father. She doesn't care so much about the money, she can always get more. But she is determined to get that gun back, no matter what it takes.

Cass and Hongmei chase Utah and Minnesota to a small frontier town where Utah frames them for a robbery and murder that he committed. In order to escape capture and hanging, Cass and Hongmei have to join the very the posse that is searching for them – a posse led by Sheriff Idaho.

As the posse pursues the phantom outlaws, and as Cass and Hongmei pursue Utah and Minnesota, Cass and Idaho begin to develop feelings for each other, the outlaw and the lawman falling in love.

Combining their skills and charms, Cass and Hongmei execute a daring and elaborate con. Minnesota ends up in jail, which makes him quite happy – jail is a very neat place. Utah is captured for his crimes. Hongmei gets the loot and Cass gets her father's gun back.

But Sheriff Idaho discovers the con and learns the truth about Cass and Hongmei. He could have them jailed for life, but out of his love for Cass, he looks the other way and allows them to escape, the outlaw and the lawman heartbroken over the love that can never be.

Cass and Hongmei ride off into the sunset, and into a new century full of endless possibility and high adventure.