Set in 1884 in northern Wisconsin, Come and Get It stars Edward Arnold as Barney Glasgow, an ambitious lumberman seeking to form a business partnership who decides to marry a businessman's daughter instead of his true love, Lotta Morgan (Frances Farmer), a beautiful and strong-willed saloon singer. Glasgow becomes wealthy and powerful while Lotta marries his Norwegian friend, Swan Bostrum (Walter Brennan), an old-fashioned lumberjack. Years later, Lotta has died and Glasgow meets her daughter, also named Lotta (also Frances Farmer). Dissatisfied with his life of luxury and power, Glasgow tries to woo the young woman, but she has another suitor.