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- It was an accident that brought Dolly and Fred together, but it was not an accident that caused Jose, the half breed, to lose his job. When he attempted to make love to Dolly, the ranchman promptly discharged him. Jose decides that walking papers are not to his liking. He steals Fred's horse. The ranchman, Fred and Dolly observe him, and, calling in several ranch hands, they give chase. Fred finally corners Jose, but his gun becomes clogged. To escape from the greaser's bullets. Fred takes refuge in a deserted mining shaft, hanging by a rope. Here Jose finds him and cuts the rope. But the earth gives way and Jose, too, falls to the bottom of the shaft, where, after a struggle, he is overpowered by Fred. Dolly and the others hear Fred's calls for help. The two men are brought from the shaft and the story ends happily for Fred and Dolly.
- A frontier plains family has their home attacked by a group of Native Americans.
- It was an accident that brought Fred and Lillian together. When a shoe came off his horse's foot Fred hastened to the blacksmith shop, and it was there that he met Lillian, the smith's daughter. Before he left she managed to slip into his pocket a horse shoe, the symbol of good luck. Fred later finds the horse shoe. As is customary he hangs it over his door. Later he again comes to town and from the express office gets a package of money. Homeward bound, he sees Lillian about to enter her house. In an attempt to become better acquainted with her, Fred feigns illness. He is taken into her home, where mustard plasters and bitter bills fall to his lot. The package of money falls from his pocket. Lillian picks it up. He tells her to keep it until he is better. Charlie, a ne'er do well, a friend of Jay, the blacksmith's assistant, eyes the money longingly. He confides to Jay about the ranchman's money and when an hour later, Fred has recovered and started back to his ranch, they go after him. Charlie with thoughts of the money, but Jay thinking only of beating up his rival. They arrive at the ranch and hold up Fred. But Fred has forgotten the money. Lillian rides after him with it. She hears angry voices in the ranch house. Peering in she sees Jay and Charlie viciously attacking Fred. Then the horse shoe over the door catches her eye. She snatches it up, dashes in the door and orders "Hand up." Taken off their guard, Jay and Charlie comply. They see through the ruse and turn again to Fred, only to find themselves covered with a six-shooter.
- After thirty years, Edythe returns with some eastern friends to the western town in which she was born. In touring about the country they meet an eccentric old character. He tells the following story: "Thirty years ago he was sheriff of that country. He was engaged to one of the belles of that region. Their wedding date had been announced. A notorious bandit had long terrorized the country, and one day he was caught. He proved to be the sheriff's own brother. The sheriff, holding the posse at bay, allowed him to escape. That night he received a letter. It was from his brother, thanking him, and adding that Edythe had left with him, and that they would not return. Since that night, added the westerner, "All he has done is to keep looking over and over again at the girl's picture." The story finished, the machine is about to drive on, when Edythe stops them. She goes over to the old sheriff, and recognizes in the old dilapidated photo herself. Willis is finally brought to realize that his girl has at last returned to him.
- A music hall singer brings about a reunion between man and wife.
- The hero is very jealous. He doesn't wait to find that Fred is his sweetheart's brother, but knocks him on the head at the first chance. Thinking he has killed his man he flees, becomes a tramp and goes crazy. His mind comes back in the hospital, there have been some house on fire scenes which are the picture's reason for being, and concludes that it is better to go home and take his punishment. He finds that the girl's brother is unhurt and he is forgiven.
- Skates salesman Fred Jackson and his wife land in Cuckooville and size up the town for customers. They see Pretzel standing in front of his store. Fred sends his wife over to buy a pair of skates. Pretzel informs her he has none for sale. When Fred shows Pretzel the skates he has for sale. Pretzel immediately buys a pair, and, running after Fred's wife, sells her the pair. She skates around the village. Soon a skating epidemic hits the town. Business is so good that Fred proposes to Pretzel that they start a skating rink, Pretzel to furnish the money. A rink is started. To bolster up business an exhibition skating contest is given, in which Pretzel does fancy skating. Money pours in. Pretzel is delighted, but seeing Fred skating with the girl, he decides to make him mind the box office while he skates with her. This suits Fred. While Pretzel skates, Fred fills his pockets from the receipts and giving the girl the signal, prepares a getaway. Fred and his wife jump into an automobile and start for the station, the skaters following. Pretzel overtakes the auto, and, catching behind, is dragged up to the station as the train pulls in. Fred and his wife rush to the train. Pretzel tries to get to his feet, but the skates keep slipping from under him.
- Lillian's father and Bill are discovered in a conference by the sheriff, who know them to be opium smugglers. The officer of the law is shot, and the men are forced to get out of the country. They leave with Lillian in a prairie schooner. The injured sheriff is found by Fred, a young secret service agent who has just come to the country, who leaves him in the hands of a friend, and goes on to capture the smugglers.
- Ray and Florenz agree, on their graduation day, to meet again in ten years, wherever they may drift in the meantime. Shortly before the ten years' time expires, Rance brings his sister to the west. She has hip disease, and be being poor, is hard put to it to take care of her. He gets a position as line rider, where he can come home each night. Daily he carries her to a comfortable seat on the porch, which is screened by vines or location from the ranch house. Rance draws only half as much money as the cowboys, and as the ranchman likes him, he gives him an opportunity to become a cowboy and get more money. Rance refuses, because the work would prevent his coming home every day to care for his sister. The cowboys think he is a coward on account of this and spurn him. He quarrels with one of them about it. Meanwhile, Ray has become a country doctor near the ranch. Florenz is a great specialist, whose word is the last when hip disease is considered. Florenz comes to visit Ray in completion of the agreement of ten years before. The ranchman one day sends Rance to town to get the money for the monthly payday. Rance is unable to get across the river, which is flooded, and returns to report his failure. This angers the cowboys a great deal and he has a hard time to "ward off" a serious fight. He goes home and the cowboys follow. They discover a woman in the house and are plotting all sorts of meanness when they hear Rance tell her that he wishes they could get Dr. Florenz to consider her case, as he could cure her. They make up a purse and present it to Rance, but his foolish pride will not let him accept. The ranchman's daughter sustains a fall from a horse and a doctor is needed. The cowboys are all out at work and the ranchman offers Rance $1,000 to cross the river and get the doctor. Upon receiving a promise that his sister shall be looked after in case he should perish, Rance sets out. After a perilous swim and a narrow escape, he succeeds in getting the doctor. The re-crossing of the river is made in a boat, which was on the other side and Florenz accompanies Ray on the trip. The ranchman grudgingly pays over the $1,000, but Rance has him give it to Florenz, who, inquiring as to the reason, learns of the sister and her troubles. He refuses the check, declaring that it would be only right to aid her as a reward for her brother's heroism. He discovers that he can cure her. Six weeks later she takes her first step, stumbling into his arms. The romance which has begun during the treatment, finds its culmination -there, as Ray and the ranchman's daughter, who have a romance of their own, stand smiling
- Blessing steals a horse and doctors the brand. Jose, who is a friend of the sheriff, Smiling Charley Buck, is suspicious of the brand on the horse, but as Ynez, his sweetheart, insists upon it he buys him for her. Jose and Ynez visit town, Ynez riding in on the horse. Burns, the brand inspector, sees them and finding the horse to answer a description posted some time before, takes the whole party in charge. They go to the sheriff's office, and there Jose succeeds in having Buck, as a favor to him. Free Ynez, Jose himself telling the story of his having bought the horse from Blessing. Several loungers who saw Bums arrest Jose and Ynez rush into the hotel and declare that Buck has caught the horse thief for whom the reward was offered. This causes a large amount of excitement, and Blessing entering in time to observe it, decides to turn it to his own advantage in fastening the guilt upon the innocent Jose. He therefore incites the mob to riot, and when they are ripe for it, starts a lynching bee with Jose as the intended victim. Warned by Bums, Buck has prepared for this, sending Jose away. Jose has pledged his word to return when sent for and the sheriff tells him he will send word to Ynez when to come. The mob comes to the sheriff's office, and after a while finds that Jose is gone. Buck and Bums, however, delay them until Jose has a good start. Jose rides to Ynez's home and there she conceals him on the roof to such good intent that the pursuing mobsmen do not find him. They return to town disgusted. Buck sends for Jose. Ynez gets the letter and is torn by her love of Jose and her desire to have him prove the man he seems. Love wins, and she begs him to fly with her. Mindful of his word, Jose hesitates. Ynez is stung by his hesitation and tells him to keep his word to Buck then, since he has failed in his vows to her. Jose, despondent, starts for town and trail. Ynez decides to follow Jose and seek forgiveness. Jose though has a long lead, and she does not catch him. Blessing attempts to kill Buck with whom he has had trouble and Jose arrives just in time to prevent it, An exciting chase follows, ending as it should, in the clearing of Jose from the charge of theft and the fastening of the guilt upon Blessing, its rightful owner, who however, has been killed. Jose and Ynez are united and she loves him more than ever because he had held his word so highly. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- Tom Gorman's fondness for glee clubs and fast company causes his father to disown him. After a severe arraignment, Tom boards a train and heads for the west, where he seeks employment on a ranch. Whatever Tom lacks in skill as a cowboy he certainly makes up for it by his playing of the mandolin, and many are the moments he enjoys in the company of Ella, the ranch owner's daughter, herself being a talented pianist. Although young Horace Greeley is one of the wealthiest ranchmen throughout the country, he is the one man Ella utterly detests, but Horace has the approval of her parents, so his visits to her home are most welcome. During one of Horace's calls Ella is asked to play for him. Quickly she feigns illness and begs to be excused. Amazed at her sudden turn, the mother goes in search of her and finds Ella not suffering, but hugely enjoying the mandolin playing of the hired man. Ella is promptly taken in charge and compelled to return to the house where she is commanded by her father to play for Horace. Seeing no way out of it, she obeys very reluctantly. From the facial expressions of all it is quite evident that she has their consent to stop, her discords are murderous. In the door of the bunkhouse, Tom is softly playing his mandolin when suddenly he hears something that causes a happy expression to light his sad face. He goes to a window of the ranch house and peers through the blinds. From her position at the piano, Ella sees the cowboy peering through the blinds, and suddenly inspired, she soon begins playing as she never played before. Totally oblivious, Tom soon forgets himself, and taking up his mandolin, begins playing in perfect accord with the piano. Horace is delighted and applauds Ella vigorously, while on the face of the father a bit of suspicion appears. Ella has finished, but the music continues. Coming towards the window, Tom is discovered. An argument between the father and Tom results in the latter's discharge. In great rage the father, followed by Horace and Ella, rushes to the bunkhouse. Horace is about to take the matter into his own hands when Ella quickly prevents and denounces him. Ella is sent to the house while the father pays Tom the wages due and orders him from the place. Tom and his offending mandolin depart. The father and Horace return to the house, but Ella is nowhere to be found. The cowboys and every man on the place is called and a pursuit of the couple begins. Ella overtakes Tom on a lonely road. An argument ensues over the ownership of the ring. Tom's suggestion, "Since we can't agree, let's be partners and own it together," is quickly assented to by Ella and they repair to a nearby parsonage. After eight hours spent, the posse is just about to give up when all happen to hear the strains of a familiar mandolin, and stealing through the thick woods they surprise the happy young pair and arrest them. The certificate displayed by Ella upon their return home is promptly declared perfectly legal by old Sheriff Kent, who, seeing the humor of the situation, brings about the forgiveness desired.
- Hiram's sole pleasure in life is fishing, until he meets May, the pretty girl from the city. Hiram promptly falls for her, as do the other local rubes. May has a merry time with her rustic lovers, finally ending up by accepting them all. She has enough engagement rings to stock a small jewelry store. Hiram learns that she has been deceiving him and formulates a plan to get rid of his numerous rivals. He thrashes them one by one. Others appear, and Hiram has a busy time, but his scheme works--until he reaches the last rival and discover that this last one is really May's husband.
- Little attention is given to the many mysterious visits of Chignigni to Balanced Bock. His age and infirmities are blamed for his many eccentricities. Mary's return from school causes a rivalry to spring up between Yale and Elliott. The latter proposes, but is quickly rejected. Yale does not propose because he is poor. Elliot, who is the foreman of the ranch, abuses the old Indian Chignigni during his passion and is soundly thrashed by Yale. That night Elliot going to Yale's cabin for revenge, overhears the Indian telling him of the location of a mysterious mine. Elliot finds the mine and leaves, prepared to return the next day with powder and fuse. Yale and Mary plan to investigate the Indian's story. On the road the girl is struck by a bullet. It came from Elliot's gun, but was meant for Yale. Thought of the mine is, for the moment, forgotten. A note sent by the girl's horse brings a relief party. Elliot has set his powder and fuse. Coming out of the cave he pauses to examine a specimen of ore with a small magnifying glass. When he returns to the cave a close view shows the fuse being ignited by the glass. An explosion takes place and the villain is crushed to death. A month later, when the girl has recovered, Yale and she return to the mine, find the body of Elliot and locate the claim.
- Willis and Joe agree that they can't be partners and rivals too, so Joe sells out. Willis, who is the one Nugget Nell cares for, strikes it rich. Later he is killed by an accidental fall. Joe, learning that his bill of sale has been lost, assumes ownership of the mine, which is now worth a fortune. Nugget Nell, who refuses Joe's proposal of marriage, adopts Janie, Willis's five year-old child. Fifteen years pass. Joe, rich, returns from the east. He meets Nugget Nell's ward, now grown to womanhood, and soon wins her away from her fiancé, Arthur. Nugget Nell attempts to persuade her ward from marrying him, but in vain, and the ward elopes. Tucked in an old shoe Nugget Nell finds the bill of sale of the mine, dated fifteen years ago. With Arthur and the sheriff they give chase to the elopers, finally overtaking them, and the ward learning the evidence, decides that after all Arthur is the man for her.
- Willis resents Arthur's attentions to Edythe, the more so when he discovers Edythe favors the stranger. Jose and Pedro are still bitter enemies. Pedro bests Jose in a fight and only Willis's timely interference saves Jose from being knifed. Later, Willis meets Jose running through the brush and learns that he has shot and killed Pedro. Seeing Arthur's approach gives Willis an idea. The two attack him from ambush, fire a shot from his gun and place him in a dazed condition, by Pedro's body. The sheriff chances by and finds Arthur with Pedro. Arthur is arrested. The evidence against him seems conclusive, and he is sentenced to life imprisonment. Willis ardently courts Edythe, until she finally consents to marry him. Shortly after Jose is seriously wounded by a fall. His gratitude goes out to Edythe, who finds him laying on the road senseless. The wedding day approaches. Jose, feeling that he is about to die, sends for the padre. The padre persuades him to confess. At the last moment the sheriff arrests Willis, just as the marriage is about to take place, and later Willis in his prison cell, as he sees Edythe in the arms of Arthur, realizes that "as ye sow, so shall ye reap."
- White Fawn, the daughter of an Indian chief, rejects an offer of marriage from Gray Eagle, an Indian warrior. The chief is angered at his daughter's determination, and strikes her. She leaves her tribe and wanders out into the woods. Tired and hungry, she staggers to a cliff, falls over, and is found by the foreman of a ranch. Drone, an enemy of the foreman, steals the foreman's money, and White Fawn interferes. Drone forces her to go with him. A chase follows. White Fawn is struck by a bullet intended for her lover, the foreman, and dies. The picture closes with the chief waiting in vain for the return of his daughter.
- Because he himself and his deputies are so well known, the sheriff of a western country sends Bess, the daughter of one of his deputies, into the hills disguised as an artist to seek evidence against those engaged in illicit distilling. Bess's idea is to snap-shot suspects she meets fitting with the description in the documents. For some time her efforts prove unavailing and she about concludes to return home. In dismounting to recover her camera, accidentally dropped, her foot slips from the stirrup and she falls to the ground. A stranger, watering his horse close by, politely gives her assistance. Bess is struck by his likeness and through a clever ruse photographs him. When he leaves she goes through the woods, and, at a safe distance, tracks him to a large cave. Dispatching the negative she returns to the place on the following day to gain more evidence. "Black Pete," one of the gang, greets her as she works with her canvas, and Bill, in the background, moves forlornly around, apparently in love. Recognizing the negative the sheriff has set off to join the girl. Bill saves her from the unwelcome embraces of his pal, "Pete" after a terrific fight which results in both men falling over a high cliff. They are found at the bottom by Bess and the officers. Pete is dead and Bill is unconscious. Though the girl had originally set out to capture Bill she now nurses him, firm in the belief that he will reform and love her. Her explanations to her father succeed in securing a pardon for Bill, and, though his eyes fill with gratitude when this is announced, he dies.
- Dolly, the leading lady, tells Arthur, the leading man, that his suit is hopeless. In her dressing room she recalls the days when she first met Joe, and promised to return, a promise unkept. And later, the baby arrived. She was obliged to leave her home in search of work that the baby might be properly brought up. In the region where the moving picture studio is located a robbery occurs and the bandit takes to the hills. That same day the moving picture company goes out into the canyon to film some scenes. The leading man, in bandit make-up, goes around a bend in the road, and there awaits the director's signal, as an answer to which he is to fire a shot. The sheriff and his men ride up in search of the real bandit. They see Arthur, who is masked, carrying a roll of bills in his hand. When he fires a shot in answer to the signal, thinking that the bullet is meant for them, the posse returns the fire and Arthur falls, wounded. Impatient at the delay the director hurries to the scene, and, with the aid of his scenario, soon convinces the sheriff that he has shot a moving picture actor. Nearby Joe, the real bandit, has been watching the entire proceedings. In Dolly, the leading lady of the company, he sees the girl he once deceived. Returning that night the sheriff finds tucked under his door the roll of stolen money. Joe finds Dolly in her dressing room and convinces her that he has at last returned to atone for his deceit.
- Little Horace Denmore is in love with Alice Adair, "The Girl Next Door." When the Adair family move to a ranch in another county, Horace gives Alice a ring to remember him by. Twelve years pass. The children have never met since. Mrs. Adair is dead and Alice, now a young woman, is burdened with the care of a dissipating father who has fallen in with evil companions. On an evening when she discovers her father, in connection with another, is a horse-thief, the sheriff calls at the house. There is a terrific fight in which the sheriff is killed. Against her will, the girl is forced to act as driver to a wagon in which the two men, hiding, are attempting to escape. Horace, in the meantime, has been called to the city. On the way he camps for the night at "The Broken Bough." Late in the night he is aroused by the screams of a woman; on searching around he finds a young girl half crazed in the sand. Fearing it is the work of Indians, Horace persuades the girl to come with him to his camp. But when he gets back he finds all his own belongings gone. They search out an old hut. While she is breaking wood, Horace discovers the ring upon Alice's finger. There is happy recognition. Before the morning comes, however, one of the horse-thieves finds his way to the house. He has killed Alice's father in a quarrel over spoils. Horace captures him and the young couple take him to town. A few days later, a prairie schooner drives into the Denmore grounds and Horace presents the girl to his parents who, after hearing the story, receive her with open arms as the little "Girl Next Door."
- Whatever might be said of Slim, he was at least steadfast in his admiration of Molly O'Reilly, but she had her doubts. When he proposed, she demurred--and Mrs. O'Reilly fanned him out of her domicile at the end of her boot. When Slim told Molly and her impossible mother that he would have Molly or kill himself, the buxom widow laughed, but Molly took the threat to heart. She interested the cowhands and all rushed to the river. But Slim had no intention of destroying himself. He thought of another fair damsel and arranged a meeting at the bridge. Circumstances again operate to disappoint him. He takes a swim. When the boys find the boob disporting himself in the water like a two-year-old instead of accommodatingly drowning himself, their purpose reverses itself. Just what happens to Slim, and the unlooked-for manner in which he finally extracts himself and wins the fair Molly, is told in "Slim Proposes, But..."
- Charles Blake, a young engineer, passes on his daily run the home of Kitty Burke, and flirts with her. At last Charley stops his engine in front of Kitty's home and speaks to Kitty while she is arranging flowers in the yard. Charley wears Kitty's picture in his watch fob. Lingering over it he hesitates too long and rushes to the roundhouse. The superintendent, finding him late, places another engineer on his engine. Charley is discharged for back talk. Meeting the engineer who took his engine, he quarrels with him and throws him from the cab. Thinking the engineer dead he rushes into hiding. Evening comes; he starts for Kitty's home by a circuitous route and comes upon a burglar. The police had been watching and come upon the scene, thinking Charley one of the burglars. A fight ensues; Charley gets away. The policeman falls and the thief gets away. Charley comes to Kitty's home and he explains all. A detective opens the locket and recognizing Kitty's picture, starts on the trail. They find Charley at Kitty's house, but he breaks away. The thief, who has been wounded by the policeman, crawls along the fence by Kitty's home and she sees him. Later the thief exonerates Charley. Time passes. Kitty received a letter from Charley, who has secured work on a stock ranch in California. In her joy she rushes to telegraph him to come back, that he is vindicated. One week later Charley's old engine, decorated with ribbons, forms a background for a wedding party of which Charley and Kitty are the principals.
- Bob hired Slim Hoover only because the Bar S Branch was short of men, not because Slim was a particularly experienced hand. One look at the new man and the boys "dub" him the "boob." His assurance annoys the boys, so they combine to force him from the bunkhouse into the kitchen, where they think he belongs. Another interest prevents the boys from further abuse of Slim: a greaser, discharged that morning, rounds out his thieving career by stealing the pick of the corral. The boys are ordered to round up the culprit. The ranch's mistress presses Slim into service helping prepare sandwiches and coffee for the trip. Instead of sweetening the boys' coffee with sugar, Slim puts in a sleeping potion. How the boys go to sleep on the job after capturing the Mexican, how the culprit escapes, and how Slim turns the tables on all and captures the $500 and the widow's heart are pictured in a realistic yet broadly humorous manner.
- When Professor McNutt of Cassline College accepted the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Faxon and sent a half-dozen of the flower of his flock to spend a week's vacation on their ranch, he was unacquainted with the mischievous inclinations of the Bar S cowhands. The base of the trouble was innocently occasioned by Mr. and Mrs. Faxon leaving for a visit in a distant city a few hours before the professor decided to accept their invitation. When his telegram arrives it falls into the hands of the boys, who immediately seize the opportunity to turn the boss's absence into a holiday. They appreciate the lack of a chaperon and when at their wits' end they finally hit upon the idea of dressing Slim in Mrs. Tom's clothes. Slim, however, objects so strenuously that it takes the combined efforts of all the spare hands to make him see the necessity of the change. The boys attain their desire in the end, however, and they reach Santa Paola depot in time to meet the girls. There was something so ineffably enticing in the kisses of the pseudo Mrs. Tom that the girls freeze to Slim from the jump, as one of them said, "she is such an open-faced old lady." The boys take their medicine as gracefully. Fate treats the boys kindly in the end, with the single exception of Big Bill. Completely snubbed, he tells the girls of the trick Slim has played on them. What the girls do to the poor boob is past description.
- A widow has been struggling while her only daughter has been growing to womanhood to keep the little ranch home for their own. Reverses came and a mortgage is placed on the ranch. A dance is to be held at Hawley's Ranch and Meg and her mother are invited. While the young folks are enjoying the dance, the old folks hike to the house where old cider is served. They go back to the young dancers and find our heroine has succeeded in lassoing the new hand at Hawley's Ranch. Her long braid of hair has become tangled in one of the buttons of his vest, and before the untangle is completed, the two young folks are inclined to think that Fate must have had a hand in it, and Meg glides away in the arms of the cowboy. We go back to the old folks and find that the cider has started its work and they go out on the lawn and do a "hoe-down." At its finish old man Hawley is ready to bet every cent he ever saw that his ranch outfit can beat any other ranch outfit in the world and that he has a horse that can beat any other horse in America, and he backs his argument with $500.00 in cash. The notice is written and the two old sports hike to where the young folks are. The young people gather around. The dance comes to an end and each cowboy feels that he is got to win that race which is to take place the following Thursday. The following morning Meg's mother receives notice that unless the $400.00 can be paid on the mortgage on the coming Thursday the mortgage will be foreclosed immediately. Meg rides up to the little home, sees her mother in distress and learns the cause. A thought comes to her: Why could not she in the disguise of a man enter the race? The scene now changes to the day of the race. The horses are all lined up. As the shot is about to be fired, Meg drives her horse to the line-up and as the shot is fired the horses dash away almost simultaneously. As the race progresses we see Meg's horse gradually forging to the front. The race is over and there is great excitement when it is learned that it is Meg who has won the race. She hurries home and is just in time to pay over the money to the man who holds the mortgage.
- Burt Hawkins, an eastern cattle buyer in New Mexico, closes a deal with Sam French, a western stock grazer and is introduced by French to his daughter, Edith, who is talking with Buck, French's foreman. It is a case of love-at-first-sight between Edith and Burt. Buck becomes jealous: indicates his dislike for Burt and quarrels with Edith leaving in an angry mood. Developments are rapid in the case. Burt tells the girl he loves her. Felipe, a sheep herder and Buck's pal, overhears an agreement between the lovers to meet. Felipe informs Buck and they decide to get square with Burt. While waiting at the meeting place. Burt is overpowered and bound; Edith arrives soon after, picking up a glove which she identifies as Burt's and which he has dropped in the struggle, also a spur belonging to Buck. She follows the foot prints and reaches the abandoned adobe shack where Felipe and Buck have imprisoned Burt. Securing a lariat, Edith ropes Felipe, who gives a frightened yell which attracts Buck's attention: Buck comes from the shack and as he opens the door Edith attempts to shoot him, but is overpowered and made prisoner with Burt. With Edith at his mercy, Buck tells her if she does not consent to marry him he will fix Burt. Buck instructs Felipe to take Burt to the old barn near by; place him inside and fire the barn. With Burt a sure prisoner, Edith persists in her refusal to wed Buck until she sees the barn burning and then consents to marry Buck. But she snatches Buck's revolver, forces him into the shack and goes to assist Burt. Bock is released by Felipe: they swear vengeance and with the assistance of sheep herders start in pursuit of Edith and Burt who have by this time traveled a considerable distance over a rough road, being given a passage in a rough stage coach. A running fight follows. Arriving at a precipice, with no outlet for escape, Edith takes a desperate chance: ties a lariat to a rock and throws the end over the cliff. She descends, followed by Burt. Buck and his men reach the precipice and Buck attempts the same route of descent. The end of the lariat is lighted, flames quickly consume the rope. Buck discovers too late that the rope is quickly burning and despite of frantic efforts to gain the top of the precipice he is dashed to the depth of the canyon. The sheriff arrives and arrests the herders.
- Joe, the dissolute son, is disowned by his father. He returns to his home one night and is about to rob his father's safe when he is interrupted by his brother Arthur. As they argue the father returns. Joe escapes unseen. Observing the safe open the father accuses Arthur, who to save his brother does not deny the insinuation. Arthur too is disowned and ordered from his father's house. The elapse of several years finds Joe a moderately successful rancher in the west. He meets Arthur, who is in rags. From him he learns that he himself in to blame for his brother's misfortune. He writes to his father, taking all the blame. As for his brother, he gives him half interest in the ranch. With Dolly, who was Arthur's fiancée, and her mother. Willis, the father, comes west. Finding the black sheep, Joe, married, and a hard-working ranchman, the father is only too glad to give his forgiveness.
- Miss Bluff, boss of the ranch owned by herself and her brother, undergoes a series of interesting and humorous adventures at the ranch in which her younger brother gets mixed through his efforts to pacify the cowboys for her abuse of them. Miss Bluff decides that the ranch offers far too small a career for her brother, however, and sends him to the city to school. The welfare of this brother is her only care. Bluff, on his arrival from the country, speedily assimilates city ways, but fails to lose his country chivalry. When he sees a drunken man attempt to force attentions upon a charming young lady he interferes. The drunken man is vanquished with ease, due to Bluff's magnificent physique and he advises the young lady to learn boxing that she may protect herself in the future from insulting persons. An introduction to the lady's parents follows the encounter and Bluff becomes a regular caller at her home. Meanwhile Miss Bluff consoles herself with Perona. The young lady's father gets her a boxing instructor. She proves an apt pupil, for after a few lessons she defeats her instructor. Brimming with roguishness, she assaults her father with a glove, and he engages her in a match. She quickly puts him to scorn. Before she has time to remove her gloves Bluff calls on her. A love scene and the plighting of their troth follow. Bluff experiencing some difficulty in fitting the ring over the gloves. Bluff writes his sister that he is bringing back a present which will delight her beyond measure. She dances wildly at the news, but when he brings home a wife she is disgusted and angry to such an extent that she abuses her partner in the Perona episodes, the negro wench. Bluff and his bride try expedients to escape from her continual surveillance, but Miss Bluff is always on hand and working when there are any honeymoon activities in progress. Bluff must be gone all day on business one day soon after they have arrived, and his wife weeps at the mere thought of being left alone with his sister. This is justified in a short time by the action of Miss Bluff in locking the new Mrs. Bluff into a dark closet. Miss Bluff then inaugurates a round of Perona oblations and invites guests for a dance that evening. Mrs. Bluff tries to get out of the closet for a long time, but when the cowboys and girls arrive and are ready to dance, she can stand it no longer. By a great effort she breaks down the door of the closet and rushes forth just in time to see her husband arrive. Miss Bluff is dancing at a great rate to the enjoyment of the guests when Mrs. Bluff enters and begins a repetition of her fistic triumph over her boxing instructor. Her husband interferes and finally succeeds in restraining her; but not before Miss Bluff has been whipped so thoroughly that life will hereafter be bearable for Mr. and Mrs. Bluff, at Bluff ranch and the cyclone having tamed the western whirlwind.
- Arthur Bronson courts Bill Gavin's daughter, Edythe, and the two become engaged. Bill Gavin has been sheriff for twenty years and he allows that he is good for one more term. But when he learns that his daughter's fiancé, Arthur, is also to run for the position, he becomes furious and insists that his daughter break with Arthur. Election day comes. Arthur has been warned by Edythe, that the defeat of her father will mean the defeat of their love, but he has refused to withdraw from the contest. But at the polls he casts his vote for Bill Gavin, a fact that he tells Edythe, and that evening when Gavin learns that he has been elected by a single vote, and is reminded that his opponent voted for him, his feelings change considerably toward Arthur. In fact, he chooses Arthur as his deputy, and Slim Jenkins, Gavin's crony, paints a new sign for the sheriff's office, which reads: "Gavin and Bronson, Sheriffs."
- About to start out for his daily toil Fred, the miner of Lonesome Gulch, notes something stops him. On the wall his calendar registers December the twenty-fourth and it occurs to him that another day will bring Christmas. Looking back, he recalls scenes of years ago, of his mother and his elder brother, who early choose a career of crime. Twenty miles away the desperado breaks from jail, and with a sheriff's posse at his heels, takes to the hills. Late that afternoon the desperado arrives at Fred's cabin, exhausted, he comes in and a minute after flopping down on the bunk, is asleep. Fred returns, sees the form of the sleeping man and decides not to awaken him. But an idea occurs to him, and this he proceeds to carry out. Morning comes, and the desperado awakens. He sees Fred sleeping, and for a second he is tempted to kill him, fearing that he may attempt to capture him and turn him over to the posse. But the vision of his mother stops him, and as he lowers his hands he feels something on the table. It is a small package labeled, "Merry Christmas, stranger." Fred wakes up, and as the two men stare at each other the realization comes that they are brothers. The posse arrive, but Fred tells them that he has seen nothing of the wanted man. Twilight comes, and the older brother departs. Fred sits down before the open fireplace, contentedly smoking, for he knows that the border line is but a few miles away, yet he had no way of knowing that a chance shot from the sheriff had struck his brother, and that when the sun set that day his dead brother was lying in a wild spot in Lonesome Gulch.
- This story deals with the characters of the days of the '60's when cattle rustling was carried on in disregard of the laws and of the hardy ranger scouts who were anxious for the scent that would lead them to a battle with the cattle thieves. Their operations became so extensive that Captain Charles Barnes, a noted ranger, was sent to Arizona to break up the rustling, his wife and son going with him. Shortly after reaching Arizona, the sweetheart of Bruce Barnes, son of Capt. Barnes, decides to visit her lover. The journey is made with safety, but she finds that Bruce is not the same. A short time after the arrival of Rosaline at the office of Capt. Barnes, he receives notice that a gang of rustlers are working a short distance away. One of his scouts is sent out. He comes back badly wounded, reporting that the rustlers are in force. Preparations are made to corral the band, and Capt. Barnes and his rangers ride away toward the scene of action. Rosaline cares for the wounded ranger and while assisting him, Bruce, her sweetheart, comes in. She supposes Bruce is with his father, and asks him the reason why he is different to her. He evades her answer and leaves her. Rosaline decides to find out the reason for his indifference, and as Bruce rides away she mounts the horse of the wounded ranger, and follows him. She sees him meet May, the daughter of the boss rustler. Realizing Bruce has been false to her, she awaits her opportunity, returns her engagement ring and tells him that she will go out of his life forever. There are constant skirmishes between the rangers and the rustlers, and in one of these the boss rustler is wounded unto death. Bruce, because of his love for May, decides to turn traitor to his father's cause and just before May's father dies, he promises the dying man that he will lead the rustlers on to victory. The rapidly changing scenes bring complications, and at last Fate brings the rangers and cattle rustlers together in a last hand to hand battle. May, in her anxiety for Bruce, insists upon riding at his side. A stray bullet finds lodgment in her frail body and she dies. The horrible situation appalls the rustlers and they are easily overpowered. Capt. Barnes is wounded, and as Bruce, his son, now a captive, is brought before him; he learns for the first time that he is a traitor. Bruce, filled with remorse, begs his father to send him to prison. The sentence is passed by the father and the boy is led away. Time passes, and the penalty has been paid. The prison doors open and Bruce Barnes is met at the portals of liberty by Rosaline, who has found it impossible to forget him, and still loves the man to whom long ago she pledged her troth. A little later, there is a happy reunion at the Barnes home.
- When Nell Bawling, who has been educated at an eastern college, returns to the ranch, all the cowboys, including Joe Willis, the foreman, and Tony Mendoza, an unscrupulous, half-breed Mexican, are so struck with her beauty that each one of them decides to win her. While at school, Nell had been in the habit of getting a new dress every so often. When she returned to the ranch her mother did not see any need to buy her clothes so promiscuously. One bright morning Nell receives a catalog from a mail order house in the east. She takes the catalog and retires to the back porch of the ranch house. While there, the cowboys, who have come in off the range, see her seated, and, thinking it is his chance to propose to Nell, Dick Craig, a tenderfoot and cowboy, interrupts her dream of dresses and pops the question to her. She tells Dick to be on his way, that there is no chance. Dick returns to his cowboy friends with his head bowed down with sorrow, when Slim decides to try his luck. He is received in the same manner. Nell becomes tired of so many proposals, so she sends Tony to saddle her pony. After enjoying her ride, Nell returns home and there she finds Joe Willis, the foreman of the ranch, and the only man she would accept if he would only propose, but Joe is of a very bashful turn of mind. Disgusted, Nell decides to try a scheme, and so places an order on the order-board stating that she will marry the first man who will deliver, or cause to be delivered, the exact number of yards for a dress for her, at $1 a yard. The cowboys notice her tacking this sign on the board, read it and run into town to purchase the goods. Fatty decides that it would be a good chance to buy Kate, the younger sister of Nell, who has not had the same advantage, a dress also. There is a wild race to the village store, which is led by Tony, the Mexican, and the village storekeeper, who has been deploring the fact that business is so bad, decides to cut down the price of his cloth from $2.98 to $1.00. Just at that moment, the cowboys of the Widow Rawling's ranch, rush in town and they practically buy him out wholesale. Fatty is among them, and is laughing at the fact that there is such a rush, when he is in no hurry because he knows that he is the only one after the other sister, Tony Mendoza, knowing that the hardest man he has to beat in this race for a wife is Joe Willis, decides to use trickery to beat him. and he places a nail in the hoof of Joe's horse, which causes him to go lame on the way back to the ranch. Joe, seeing this, has a quick bright idea to send his goods home to Nell by his faithful old dog, Jose. He straps his purchase of nine yards of cloth to Jose's back, and starts him for the ranch. Jose takes a short cut over the prairie, and gets there first with Joe Willis' goods. Just as Nell is marking this nine yards as the first delivered, Tony rushes in with the exact amount of nine yards, but he doesn't win the hand of Nell because Joe's dog got there first. At that moment Joe comes and, seeing his name on the board as winner, forgets his bashfulness and takes Nell into his arms, to the discomfiture of Tony and the other rejected suitors, with the exception of Fatty, who has delivered his goods to his sweetheart, Kate.
- Her teachers at Carlisle had great hopes for Maya. They thought she might carry the message of civilization to her tribe, because she became so thoroughly Americanized. But it was not many months after she returned to them before she had gone back to the life of her ancestors. Yellow Horse, her Indian suitor, was glad to see this. Bill West, returning empty-handed from a prospecting trip, heard from the old trader that True Eagle, Maya's father, knew where there was gold. He attempted to learn the secret of his tribe from the aged chieftain, but failed. In Maya, however, yearning to be wooed as the white man would, he found an easy tool. Telling her he loved her, he induced her to learn the secret, which she obtained from her father, only upon a pledge never to see Bill again. But evening found her with him and True Eagle grew nervous when he found she was absent from the village. He went in search of them and found Maya and Bill at the site of the gold. He expelled her from the tribe and would have driven Bill away from the place, but the prospector told him Maya was his wife. Unmolested by the Indians, Bill panned his gold. Finally he made preparations to leave and Maya, resigned now to his brutality and loving him in spite of it, opposed his plans as soon as she discovered it. But he paid no attention to her and left after denouncing her. Two years passed and True Eagle learned from the trader that Bill was near at hand in a little settlement on the railroad. Imparting the news to Yellow Horse he planned revenge for Bill's treachery, but Maya was before him. She had overheard the tale, and hate grew within her. She thought she saw a way to win Bill back, to wrest from him the wife he had taken from the white people, and to live again with the man she left to be hers. She got the gold from its hiding place and went to the little settlement. An hour's wait at the post-office brought Bill in search of the letter and money he had asked the trader to lend him. Maya followed him home. Soon he left to call a doctor, for his wife was very ill with consumption. This indeed was the cause of his return to the mountain country. Into the house went Maya, and there she found the woman. She thought she was sleeping, but soon discovered that her stillness was that of illness. There, too, was the baby that had been born to them. Maya's heart, warmed by hate, grew cold again. She laid the gold down, renouncing with it all hope of winning back her man again, laid upon it the knife she had brought for his wife and went away. Bill returned to his home, found the gold and the knife and understood. It was the other side of the page he had read two years before, when he opened the gold bag and found worthless rocks and sand. Now he again had the precious metal he had dug from the Indian stream, the value he had filched from their secret hiding place. And Maya, he didn't bother about her, she was "Just an injun" anyway.
- Harry's parents were comfortably well off, and when he married a girl whom they considered beneath them in station, he was promptly disinherited. He and Betty loved each other, however, and they set up a modest little home. But married life is expensive and in the course of time Harry's small store of savings was well-nigh exhausted. One day, as he was thinking what he had best do, he saw an article in a newspaper that told of the discovery of gold near Cabeny. Eventually he arrived at the gold field. He bought an outfit and horses. Harry exercised poor judgment in his purchase of horses and the one he was riding stumbled at the top of a hill, Harry fell and hurt himself badly. Far off in the rocks a rough old miner was working. He took the injured gold seeker to his own cabin in the hills and there after a time he convalesced, but his memory was gone. His outfit gave no clue to his identity, and perforce the miner had to keep him with him. In the meantime a baby has come to Betty and himself, of whose existence Harry was ignorant, and poverty has attacked both his wife and son. To insure the proper provisions for the baby, she left it one night on her father-in-law's doorstep. But mother-in-law had gone away, and father-in-law did not know anything about babies, so he left the youngster with some neighbors. The miner and Harry were working every day at the mine and had great hopes from it when, one day an extra large blast caused Harry to be struck and injured with falling rock. When he had recovered from the effects of this it was found that he had regained his memory. Of course, his first thought then was of the little wife whom he had neglected for a year. Back home he hurried. While all this was happening, mother-in-law had returned home and she and her husband had gone to the neighbor's to reclaim the baby. But the winning ways of the little fellow had captivated the neighbors and they would not give him up. An argument ensued, and a policeman was called in to settle it. He confiscated the baby and took it to the police station. The hard-hearted chief of police ordered the baby turned over to the matron at the station and had a policeman eject the noisy quartet from his office. About the time the quarrel was taking place Harry had returned to his home and found his wife in very poor circumstances. But he had with him a little gold from his efforts and felt able to make her comfortable. Besides, he had learned the great lesson of work and felt competent to care for a wife and child. Together he and Betty set out to regain their son. After calling at his father's house and at the neighbor's house in a frantic search, they found that the baby had been taken to the station. There they hurried and Betty made an appeal to the chief of police that convinced him of her sincerity. He had the little fellow turned over to her and she and Harry left the place happy.
- Mr. Stubbs is a henpecked husband. He is the ridicule of the cowboys, because of his determination to do things; but when Mrs. Stubbs appears he is completely stilled. Mrs. Stubbs drives to town for some groceries and finds a youth from the city, whom she commands to come to work on her ranch. Her daughter, Rose, has returned from the city school, and is quite a young lady. She, of course, falls in love with the city youth, and they plan to elope. They leave that night, but Mrs. Stubbs, ever on the alert, gets out of bed and follows them, only to be too late, for they are already joined in wedlock. She sees the two lovers spooning, her heart is touched, and she decides to let Mr. Stubbs take charge of the ranch from now on.
- A Texas Ranger tracks a desperado into the desert, where both eventually die of wounds and thirst.