It’s the year 1890 in Saddlesore City. The Carson Hotel is a fun place to hang your hat and just have a good ole time with friends and neighbors – playin’ cards, dancin’, laughin’,singin’, gossipin’ and…drinkin’ sassafras root beer by the gallons! Well, that’s the way it used to be when Charles was alive but now it’s just a sorry-eyed, sad-faced, ghost of a place where even the spiders are bored out of their minds! Widow Henrietta has become overwhelmed with both the duties of hotelin’ and tryin’ to raise Liza and Skeeter. Her once happy attitude has now turned grumpy. But then, suddenly, her prayin’ and hopin’ have been answered! A rich, high-fallutin’ Chicago socialite lady wants to buy the hotel as she’s looking to have a nice, quiet, peaceful hotel far away from the noise of the big city. Well, the town just can’t let that happen! For sure that would end any chances for getting back to the socializin’ and fun times that the hotel once offered! There’s only one thing to do: get sneaky and stop that outta town, nose-in-the-air, fancy, rich lady from buying the place. So, Miner Joe and Stinky Sal work up a plan, Liza and Skeeter work up a plan, Millie and the entire town work up a plan. Problem is they don’t tell each other! It all turns farcical as each sneaky scheme slowly takes shape. Will their sneakiness succeed? Will Henrietta realize just how much the hotel means to the citizens of Saddlesore City?