When backwoodsman Adam Pontipee goes to town looking for a bride, he finds Milly
and convinces her to marry him -- immediately (Bless Your Beautiful Hide).

Milly's friends are horrified that she is to marry a man she has only just met, and try
to warn her against the marriage -- but Milly is ecstatically happy and optimistic, and
she does not allow her friends to change her mind (Wonderful Wonderful Day).

On their arrival at the farm after their wedding, Milly's joy turns to dismay when she
finds she is to also take care of Adam's six unkempt, rowdy brothers (One Man).

Milly's heart quickly melts, however, and she sets about teaching the boys manners
-- as well as teaching them how to court girls (Goin' Courtin').

At the town social the brothers and girls' town suitors square off in a rousing challenge
dance which ends in a brawl, and the brothers' banishment from the town. When
Gideon tells of his feelings of love for Alice, it soon becomes apparent that his view of
love is completely different to that of Adam's view on the subject (Love Never Goes Away).

The boys become depressed at not being able to see their girls, and Adam advises his
brothers to do like the Romans did with the Sabine women -- just carry off the girls
they want Sobbin' Women.

The boys sneak into town to kidnap the girls -- and escape by causing an avalanche
which shuts off their pursuers (The Townsfolk's Lament).

A horrified Milly bars the boys from the house until the spring thaw when the girls
could be taken back to town. Although his brothers decide to do so, Adam refuses
to take Milly's orders and leaves for the trapping cabin to wait out the winter there
(A Woman Oughta Know Her Place).

During the winter, the brothers and girls long for each other -- but Milly advises
everyone to be patient until the spring (We Gotta Make It Through the Winter).

By spring, the couples are together and very much in love (Spring, Spring, Spring).

When Milly has a baby girl, Gideon goes up to the cabin to get Adam to come home,
and to tell him about his baby daugher. A still resentful Adam refuses to leave the
trapping cabin and return home -- but he begins to question his feelings for Milly
(A Woman Oughta Know Her Place - Reprise).

When he returns home, to mention to his family that the pass is open, Adam hears
Milly and the couples singing the baby to sleep (Glad That You Were Born).

Adam tells Milly that he had been thinking of the baby, while up at the cabin, and how
he would feel if somebody came and carried her off. He also tells Milly that he had been
thinking of her while up at the trapping cabin, and that he loved her. Adam kisses Milly
-- and a delighted Milly responds to his affection (Love Never Goes Away - Reprise).

Adam realises that he was wrong and decides to take the girls back to town. The girls
overhear Adam's plan and run to hide. They want to stay with their men.  The townsmen,
who had left the town as soon as the pass was clear, arrive at the farm and misinterpret
what is happening as the brothers catch the girls in a situation that appears more sinister
than it is.

All ends well when each of the girls, simultaneously, claims to be the mother of Milly's
baby -- and the shocked townsmen fulfil everyone's wishes by forcing the couples to
marry in a shotgun wedding -- thereby inadvertently ensuring the happiness of all by
giving everyone exactly what they wanted

(Wedding Dance and Goin' Courtin' / Wonderful Wonderful Day).