When a refined educated society heiress joins a wagon train heading west, tracking down the fiancee who jilted her, she meets a rough and ready Irish peasant girl looking for gold. Dressing as men to work as cowhands, the girls go undercover in an all-male world and through a series of comic misadventures embark on the ride of a lifetime!

SYNOPSIS:

'Cowboy Girls' is an exhilarating action adventure comedy set in the 1880's about a

female friendship that develops on a wagon train, between two unlikely young

women: Maeve (20), a bold, beautiful, rough and ready Irish peasant and Adelaide

(25), a college educated society heiress. Adelaide is heading out West, tracking down

her fiancee Charles (30's), a slimey low-life London villain, posing as aristocracy,

who has jilted her at the altar and run off with her family heirloom.

Maeve and her shy, stammering sister Brige (19), have escaped the Irish potato

famine and made it to the States on a 'coffin ship'. Maeve tells Brige that they must

take huge risks as girls in this New World. She has a plan! Maeve and Brige now

dress as male cowhands – 'Marty' and 'Billy' - and join a wagon train packed with

hard living male cowhands. A comedy of errors occur when Juneteenth (24), a fun loving African-American ex-prostitute, tries to seduce Maeve/Marty unsuccessfully,

chasing her around the campsite. Adelaide realises the 'boys' true identity and swears

to keep their secret if she can travel with them. Maeve grudingly agrees.

Brige finds out she is pregnant and, along with Adelaide, the three girls get thrown

off the wagon train, staggering through the desert, being secretly saved by McCready

(30's), (a warm-hearted Scottish bounty hunter) who is following Adelaide so she

will lead him to Charles. McCready, watching from afar, is falling in love with

Adelaide, a woman, he realises sadly, is way beyond his social reach.

Becoming cowboy girls and rodeo shootists, Maeve, Brige and Adelaide turn up in a

mud town in Texas where Charles is posing as Marshall. Claiming their land, the girls

dig for gold, but find nothing. Maeve decides to dress as a wealthy widow to ensnare

Bransome (40's), the powerful, bullying local land baron but Adelaide is horrified:

this is not the kind of freedom they came out West for! Maeve curtly reminds

Adelaide: she came out West for gold so she can send for her baby son, Johnny, the

baby she had to give up as a teenager back in Ireland.

Adelaide, devastated, retreats back to their land but then discovers 'black gold' on

their land – oil ! Adelaide gallops to the church where Maeve is marrying Bransome

and bursts into the church: they are rich beyond their wildest dreams! Bransome gets

shot in the shoot out as Charles rides off. Maeve, Adelaide, Brige and Juneteenth,

track him down but in the final shootout, Brige gets killed defending Maeve.

Maeve, grieving, retires to her mansion, her oil fields around her, guilt ridden about

her sister's death. Adelaide, homesick, decides to return back East. Maeve,

remembering her mother abandoning her in the Irish potato famine, vows to shoot

Adelaide dead if she ever returns. Adelaide, a successful lawyer, does return many

years later with Maeve's son, Johnny (now 30's) - whom she's tracked down in

Ireland. Maeve is overjoyed. They saddle up and ride out, cowboy girls once more.

COWBOY GIRLS