Keaton plays a melancholy midwesterner, name of Friendless, who hops a freight train for Arizona, intent on becoming a cowboy. His dream is realized, in a quiet sort of way, when he removes a pebble from the foot of a limping cow, Brown Eyes, and she becomes his constant companion. When Brown Eyes is to be shipped to Los Angeles, Friendless inadvertently accompanies her on a train barreling west. Keaton makes the most of the comedy inherent in a herd of livestock wandering the streets of Los Angeles, exploring department stores and beauty parlors, but for the most part, Go West is memorable for more lyrical images such as Keaton and cow walking across a vast plain. Ol' brown eyes finally found a co-star with a soul to match his own.