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- A chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.
- Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.
- Two sidewalk salesman enlist in the army in order to avoid jail, only to find that their drill instructor is the police officer who tried having them imprisoned.
- In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.
- An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
- The great lover Don Juan comes to the assistance of his queen.
- A platoon of special ops are tasked to parachute into the remote Burmese jungle and destroy a strategic Japanese radar station, but getting out isn't as easy.
- A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
- A young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé's family and turns a happy household against itself.
- A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
- The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials.
- A sheriff's milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.
- Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the regimental chaplain, has faith that he'll prove himself in the end.
- Stage line owner Brent's men rob the Halliday stages. When his manager Waring protests, Brent has him killed. Waring's nephew Jeff takes his uncle's job and helps Halliday get the mail contract by entering the official stagecoach race.
- Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.
- A retelling of The Last of the Mohicans with just enough changes to qualify for a different title. Major Heyward and Hawk-Eye escort three children of an officer to safety during the French and Indian War. The addition of young Davy created several misadventures that enlivened the journey.
- A fictionalized version of famous opera composer Victor Herbert where he witnesses the romance, stardom, parenthood, and troubled experiences of his star singers.
- Gamblers Jim Turner and Valarie part company in Chicago and agree to meet at Saratoga with Jim stopping off at Barrowville en route. There, Jim meets George Mayhew and Eight Ball, a barbershop bootblack, and replenishes his bankroll gambling on pitching horseshoes. George's mother and his sister Marjorie run a boarding house and Jim goes there to live. George and Jim go to Bellport Park and meet "Broadway", owner of "Lady Luck", a thoroughbred race horse. Jim bets on the horse and wins heavily. He falls in love with Marjorie and wins her away from Preston Barrow when he forswears gambling and promises to get a $20-per-week job which represents Peggy's idea of respectability. Christmas Eve, 1934, finds Jim a night clerk in a small Chicago hotel, playing the horses only on paper for his amusement. Jim is given some money by Joe, a pal of gambler/race horse owner Jed Bright, in appreciation for a racing tip he had given. Jim had planned on sending the money to Marjorie's needy mother but uses most of it to pay a broken-down actor's hotel bill. He then runs the rest of the money into a big roll gambling and accepts a job from Bright. Marjorie, Jim, Bright and Joe go to California for the opening of Santa Anita, where Jim is happy but Marjorie is disgusted with the track life. Valerie wins thousands on "Lady Luck" through Jim's tip, but Marjorie refuses to help them celebrate. Jim, Valerie and "Broadway" make a night of it gambling and Jim wins $20,000. He gives a thousand to Valerie and the remainder to Marjorie the next morning. Jim and Marjorie have a showdown and she admits to sticking with him through pity and he to her through a sense of responsibility. They part company happily---Marjorie to marry Preston (which may or may not be news to ol' Preston), and Jim to return to the track and gambling life with Valerie, (who may or may not have asked him about the missed meeting in Saratoga.)
- Eddie Grant is a radio station sound-effects man whose honeymoon takes a turn for the worse when they discovers the corpse of a program producer in in their honeymoon suite.
- The Durango Kid and Marshal Smiley Burnette complicate a corrupt mayor and his henchman's efforts to take over a town.
- Pop Walker foolishly bets his ranch that his son Curt will win the all around championship at the rodeo. When he sees his son has become attracted to Barbara Allen and thinking it will affect his performance, he breaks it up. But then realizing the mistake he made he must get them back together again before the championship event.
- Gervais Delemere and Sydney Archdale, Sr. are lifelong friends. Archdale's son, Sydney, and Constance Delemere are affianced. One day as the friends are playing chess, an Indian runner brings a message bearing the information that King George III has directed that a tax of three pence per pound be put upon tea. The message virtually presages a call to arms. The men argue violently, Archdale asserting the tax an outrage and Delemere advancing strong Royalist principles. The men part enemies and the young people are forbidden to see each other. Hostilities start and Archdale shows his partisanship by drilling recruits. Delemere watches his daughter Constance carefully, he introduces her to Captain Devereaux and intimates to her that it will please him if she will show him attention. Delemere and Constance are out riding, when they hear a child crying. They investigate and find a six-year-old boy apparently deserted. Constance insists upon taking the child home with her. He is the son of Captain Devereaux, who has deserted little Phillip after he has struck down his Indian wife, Osano, leaving her apparently dead. Osano recovers and vows vengeance after her kind. Constance is unaware of the child's identity. Delemere accompanies Capt. Devereaux east in answer to the call for men to serve the King. Devereaux presents Constance with a charm from his chain as a remembrance. Constance accepts it to please her father. Constance cannot face the loneliness, and accompanied by her servants she starts for Boston, accompanied by the boy, to join her father. Arriving at a blockhouse, Constance requests accommodations for the night. It is acceded to. The blockhouse is attacked and after a bitter fight the survivors are taken prisoners by the Indians. One man escapes and, arriving at Boston, he seeks out Delemere, who receives a message from General Gage to the Mohawk chief, Main Rouge, asking him to deliver up his daughter. Delemere is on his way to Connecticut, when he is arrested for a spy by American soldiers and put into jail. In the meantime Constance is taken to the tepee of Chief Main Rouge, where she is found by Osano, the deserted wife of Devereaux. Osano recognizes the charm, and is about to kill Constance, but fearing detection and death, she conducts the white girl to the woods and leaves her to her fate. Constance wanders about and is found in an exhausted condition by a Quaker family and is taken by them to Boston. The Archdales, father and son, are very active in the interests of the cause. Archdale, Junior, leads the Boston tea party, overpowers the English crew and throws the tea chests overboard. He is also in command at the battle of Bunker Hill, from which he retreats fighting hard. Constance visits her father in prison and secures an interview with General Washington. She obtains an order for Delemere's release. The Declaration of Independence is signed. Delemere, Constance and the boy Phillip settle down happily in a cottage and the lad is devoted to his protectress. One afternoon Constance and the boy are seen by Osano, who attacks Constance with a knife. Phillip tries to defend her and thwarts her long enough to allow of her rescue by Sydney Archdale and his father. The squaw falls and the knife enters her side. They carry the woman to Delemere's cottage, where they find Devereaux, who has just returned from England. Osano recognizes Devereaux and denounces him as the husband who deserted her. In a fit of rage Devereaux draws his sword and lunges at Sydney, to whom Constance has run. Archdale. Sr. kills Devereaux. Osano sees the tribal mark on Phillip's arm and tells Constance he is her son. The boy runs to his protectress. The old men are reconciled and the way is open for the marriage of Constance and Sydney.
- The Apache Chiefs and Sub-Chiefs, Naitche, Ketena, Tahchilsa and others, come to the reservation barracks and demand liquor. They are very angry at the refusal given, and Lieutenant Davis, in charge, is apprehensive of trouble. The Apaches return to camp and make the squaws brew tizwin, their native liquor. A scout sees the effects of the brew and notes the braves in full war paint dancing. The scout reports to Lieut. Davis, who sends Second Lieut. Clark, with a troop of cavalry, to stop the warlike preparations. The troopers go to the Indian camp and the chief is informed that his tribe will be punished if he is not careful. The Indians show their resentment plainly and Chief Mangus's squaw would shoot Clark but for the interference of Mangus. After their departure, the squaw fires the braves on to action, and they start out to exterminate the Pale Face upstarts. They fire a pioneer cabin, kill the man and take the woman off. Clark reports to Davis, who leads a troop to the Indian camp and confiscates the tepees and takes the squaws prisoners. Mangus's squaw, Huera, being amongst the number. The Indians swear a terrible oath of vengeance. From their mountain retreat they descend cautiously to the reservation barracks and Chief Mangus climbs the brush stockade and rescues his squaw, Huera. An Indian climbs a telegraph pole and cuts the wires to destroy communication. Davis deems it advisable to call for reinforcements. He finds the wires are cut. He determines upon an immediate attack and rides after the redskins. The Indians see them and plan an ambush. They see the troopers enter a pass, which leads to a sandy plain. The Indians race across the mountain path, enter the plain and bury themselves in the sand. The Cavalry comes along and falls into the trap. The Indians rise from the sand on every side and annihilate them, and all that is left the next day are the naked bodies of the dead troopers.
- A saddle-weary Steve Larkin (Charles Starrett), also the Duranko Kid, rides into Red Mound, a town filled with cattle rustlers. Cafe owner Smiley (Smiley Burnette), befriends Steve and fills him in on the activities. Steve angers the rustler's leader, Flip Dugan (Jim Diehl) when he purchases the old Atkins ranch which is supposedly haunted. Flip and his henchmen try to prevent the recording of the deed, but the Durango Kid and Deputy Marshal Tug Carter win the gun battle.
- Jack Rance and Bess Shackelton, an engaged couple, are part of a party of settlers, moving westward. The settlers' camp near a band of Sioux Indians. Chief Eagle is picking herbs when he sees the wagon and prairie schooners in the valley below. As he hastens to his tribe, the bridle rein breaks, and Eagle is thrown and badly injured. He is found by his devoted squaw, but she cannot lift him. Jack and Bess are out riding. They come across Eagle and Dark Feather, and, seeing his bad plight, lift him on his horse and take him back to their camp and attend to his injuries. Dark Feather, believing that Eagle is being taken a captive, rides into the Sioux camp, and gives the alarm. The Sioux thereupon ride swiftly to the settlers' Camp and attack it. Eagle hears the war whoop, and, crawling painfully from his packet, he makes himself known and stops the attack. During the short fight, a half-breed steals through the wagon lines, and attempts to abduct Bess, but Eagle appears and commands him to go. Jack and Bess go to get water, the olla breaks, and Jack returns to camp to get another, leaving Bess to await his return. Boyd and two Indians find her and ride off with her, but they are seen by Dark Feather who gives the alarm. Eagle overtakes the half-breed, who transfers Bess from his horse to one ridden by one of his Indians. He and Eagle fight on horseback and the half-breed falls. Jack and several Indians intercept the half-breed's companions and rescue Bess and take the abductors prisoners. Eagle and Dark Feather ride to the settlers' camp with Jack and Bess, and are amply rewarded with a big dinner.
- Hawkeye, a young Apache brave, happens one day on a beautiful Hopi maiden busy working in the field. He immediately pays court to the lovely Mona. Mona's heart is elsewhere, however, and she scorns his love. Ortega, who is the favored one of Mona, asks her hand of Kolan, the Hopi chief, and wins his consent, hut Hawkeye refuses to be repulsed. He determines to win the Hopi maid. He watches, and when he finds her alone by the creek, attempts to make violent love to her. Mona's scream brings Ortega to her assistance, and the two men engage in a hand-to-hand fight. Ortega finally trips Hawkeye into the creek, and picking up a stone, threatens Hawkeye, who drags himself from the water, and mounting his horse, rides away, threatening the young pair with vengeance. Mona's wedding day dawns brightly and the preparations for the Hopi wedding are made, but Hawkeye, with a band of his braves, attacks the wedding procession from two sides, and during the struggle between the Hopis and Apaches, Hawkeye grabs Mona, and. throwing her across his horse, dashes away. Ortega, with blood streaming from a jagged cut in his face, staggers after them. Hawkeye takes the Indian maid to his wickup, and, finding her unwilling to become his squaw, binds her with rawhide thongs. He then leaves her and goes to the river for water. Ortega, who has followed, quickly frees Mona and taking Hawkeye's gun, escapes swiftly. Hawkeye returns and finds them gone. He shows pleasure, however, when he realizes that Ortega has taken the gun, hut has no ammunition. He follows the fugitives and Ortega and Mona, in fear, hide in the foliage of an overhanging tree. Hawkeye follows and a battle between the Hopi and the Apache takes place in the branches of the tree. Mona comes to Ortega's assistance, and together they throw Hawkeye into the canyon below.
- The old chief desires to see his son provided with a squaw, but she must be good and beautiful. He summons many braves and sends them to distant camps and villages, calling for an Indian maiden, one who will be a fit mate for Ortega, the son of the powerful chief. From the villages come many maidens, including the beautiful and modest Mona. In one of the villages the old hag, the "Devil Woman," hears the message and decides that her daughter, Kulush, shall be chosen. The day of the choosing arrives and the maidens file by the expectant Ortega. He gazes at them with indifference until Mona slowly raises her eyes to his, when he smiles. Kulush is led to Ortega by her mother, who watches him closely. Ortega does not smile. The maidens form a circle around Ortega and smile. They dance and Ortega impulsively pulls Mona from the circle and his choice is made. The maidens shower the couple with the corn and flowers they have brought and depart as the "Devil Woman" forms her horrid schemes. One day the hag discovers the weeds she is searching for, and with a triumphant and malicious grin she throws them on the fire, incanting the while she throws the ashes in the air and lo! Mona sees the beloved form of Ortega slowly change into a beautiful pinto pony. The "Devil Woman" croons her joy and Mona runs in fear, the pony always at her shoulder. Arriving at the village, Mona tells the story, and Comanche, the pony, nods an affirmative. Darkface, who himself admires Mona, is secretly pleased, while the rest of the tribe show their sorrow and pet the pony. Darkface tries to persuade Mona to go with him, but she points sadly to Comanche. He determines to get the pinto out of the way in order to compel Mona to listen to him. He takes Comanche away into the woods, bobbles him, and jeering at him, returns. He surprises Mona at the waterhole, puts his hand over her mouth, and carrying her off, ties her to a tree until she will obey his will. Comanche undoes the bobbles and starts in search of Mona. He finds her and, loosening her bonds with his teeth, he frees her; but she, weakened with long standing, falls, whereupon Comanche lies beside her and helping Mona gets her on his back rises and gallops away. They meet the revengeful Darkface and Comanche edges him over a cliff. The Devil Woman finds him so and goes for herbs. Comanche looks over the cliff and starts a big rock over the edge. It crushes the inhuman couple as Manitou, the good fairy of the Indians, rides on and flourishes a spear. The spell is broken and Comanche gradually fades away and Ortega stands again before his beloved Mona.
- The cattle herds of some Arizona ranchers are being stampeded and stolen, so the Arizona Stockmen's Syndicate sends ace investigator Steve Reynolds in to find out who is responsible. Steve poses as a vicious gunslinger named Buck McCloud to work his way into the gang, and then becomes the Durango Kid to disrupt the activities he learns about. Jud Temple is the loyal fiancée of town banker Grat Hanlon who turns out to be the brain-trust behind the gang.
- The picture opens at a frontier army post. There are the hospital, the commissary and the "enlisted man's club," the canteen. The interior of the canteen is then shown, with the soldiers seated about. Lieutenant Carson enters, buys a drink, and is handed a small package by the canteen boss. He immediately repairs to his quarters, removes his uniform coat, puts on a civilian coat and slouch hat, takes the suspicious looking package and sets out. He goes to the big camp of Indians, seeks the chief, and with the package, which contains whiskey, barters with the head of the tribe for his daughter. The thief consumes the liquor, and while still under its influence and thirsting for more goes to the barracks with little Drowsy Eyes looking for the lieutenant and more firewater. He runs into the colonel, who, upon learning of the lieutenant's action, orders that officer under arrest. He is court-martialed and cashiered. As his uniform is being stripped from him the officers take note of an American flag tattooed on his forearm. The lieutenant immediately repairs to the Indian camp and seeks admission. Grudgingly it is conceded. The chief throws him into a tent and supplies him with an Indian outfit. Jose Rosarro, a wealthy Mexican, is advised by the family physician to take Mme. Rosarro to the States for the benefit of her health. Jose has a beautiful place and his wife naturally deplores leaving such palatial, luxuriant surroundings for the dangers, known and unknown, of the trail. The doctor prevails, however; the treasures are packed in a solidly-built trunk, the immediate family is loaded into a coach and the relatives and retainers are accommodated in the famous prairie schooners and on horseback. So the caravan sets out through the gates. The scene on the Santa Fe trail is one to be remembered. The beholder stands on a hill and sees the caravan moving over the smooth turf under a bright sun. It seems as if travel under these primitive conditions must have substantial compensations. Suddenly a wheel comes off the coach. Instantly there are a dozen men at work on it. The women are lifted out of the coach. So also is the treasure chest and put on the ground at one side of the trail. Carson, the renegade, riding across the brow of the hill, sees the commotion and rides up and dismounts. His eye lights on the chest. Cautiously he lifts it. Two vigilant Mexicans warn him off. Carson has guessed the contents of the casket. He loses no time in returning to camp and arousing the Indians. A war dance is in progress. It is cut short, however, and the entire force sets out for the scene of the breakdown. The travelers are warned of the approaching Indians and hastily form their wagons into a circle. The fight is on immediately. The Indians break through. Carson and an Indian helper pick out the casket and carry it out of the circle and hide it in the woods. The helper is shot by Carson, who then returns to the conflict. Jose is one of the last to fall. His wife is seized by Carson. The Indians find a barrel of whiskey. They lose no time in getting it open and starting in to consume it. This suits Carson, who now has in view two objects, the securing of the treasure and the possession of Juanita Rosarro. He gathers some poisonous loco weeds and puts them into the whiskey. They act as knockout drops. When the Indians are unconscious Carson puts Juanita on a horse behind him and carries her to the Indian camp. Carson returns to the scene of the fight and safeguards the box of treasure. Drowsy Eyes is jealous of Juanita. The return of Carson alone prevents the Indian woman from killing the Mexican. The little Indian has observed the terror of Juanita. The latter has threatened to kill herself if Carson comes near her. To the Indian Juanita appeals for help. She shows her a pair of baby's booties. It is an appeal to the feminine instinct, and it is successful. Drowsy Eyes just previously has put into Carson's bottle some of the whiskey which that rascal had previously poisoned. As soon as it takes effect the little Indian and Mrs. Rosarro mount a horse and ride rapidly away. They reach the army post in safety. They were none too soon, however. An heir is born to the house of Rosarro, but the life of the mother goes out with the birth of the son. Twenty years later Juan Rosarro is in love with Betty, the daughter of his benefactor, Colonel Roberts. She is in love with Juan. The colonel favors Major Clemens and says so. The major has means. Juan and Betty, however, frequently ride out of camp. On one of these trips they get a glimpse of a white-bearded creature they describe as the "gray ghost." Betty is alarmed. Juan takes a rope and goes on the hunt for the strange man. He conceals himself under a log and waits. The gray ghost appears. He rests on top of Juan's log. Then the ghost sprawls on the sand, fondly patting the ground under him. Juan waits his chance and tries to throw the rope about the ghost. He is not quick enough. The strange man has muscles of steel. In a short struggle Juan's pistol is discharged. The stranger falls. Juan sets off for camp and brings back the colonel and the captain, and some soldiers. One of the officers turns over the body. On the forearm is plainly seen the tattooed American flag. A number of Indians pass. They stop and look at the body. A little woman bends over it. She tells the officers that the dead man was a white soldier, which fact they now know, and adds that she was his squaw. The body is loaded on the Indian conveyance and the redmen move away. Juan is curious to learn what held Carson's attention to the sand. He begins to dig. Just under the surface he finds a large trunk. Willing hands carry it to the post. In the colonel's home it is opened. There is a thrilling scene and a happy one as Juan lifts from the chest a box containing a necklace and reads the inscription on the cover: "Jose to Juanita Rosarro, August 22, 1849." Major Clemens moves from the room. The colonel admits that the trunk's contents removes all his previous objections to the marriage of his daughter to Juan. Everybody but the major is happy.
- Star Eyes, a Sioux maiden, is in love with and loved by Eagle Feather, a Cheyenne Brave. They have clandestine meetings. Crow Face, a Sioux warrior, brings presents to the Sioux Chief and asks for Star Eyes as his squaw. The Chief consents but Star Eyes fights the proposal. She is delivered over to a squaw, who is instructed to guard her closely. At dusk Eagle Feather awaits her at their meeting place, and when she doesn't come he tethers his horse and creeps into the Sioux camp. Star Eyes peeps out of the tepee and sees the guarding squaw is asleep. She also sees Eagle Feather and motions him back. Star Eyes chokes the squaw into insensibility and joins Eagle Feather. They run to the horse, mount and ride away. Crow Face sees her going in the dusk and follows, detects Eagle Feather, returns and rouses the camp and the couple are pursued to the Cheyenne camp. The Sioux are not in sufficient numbers to attack the Cheyennes, so they retreat. The Sioux declare war and surprise the Cheyennes when they are going through the wedding dance to celebrate the joining together of Eagle Feather and Star Eyes. Eagle Feather persuaded Star Eyes to escape. She does this and is joined by the fleeing Cheyennes, but Eagle Feather and others are captured and taken to the Sioux camp, where Eagle Feather is bound and insulted by his Sioux rival, Crow Face, and ordered to be burned at the stake. Star Eyes and the Cheyennes steal up to the Sioux camp in the dark in an effort to rescue Eagle Feather, and the other captives. Star Eyes sees the preparations for the burning of Eagle Feather. She chooses an open space between two clumps of trees and has a hole hastily dug there. It is finished just as the Sioux Chief is about to order the fuel heaped around Eagle Feather to be lit. Star Eyes sends a message to Crow Face, the Sioux Brave, stating she will submit to him if Eagle Feather is spared. She then orders the Cheyennes to conceal themselves in the trees. Crow Face peers through the darkness and distinguishes the form of Star Eyes with her arms outstretched. He goes to her, and lured by her smile and open arms he falls into the trap, the grave prepared for him. The Cheyennes sweep out to avenge their wrongs, and taking the Sioux unawares, put them to rout. Star Eyes is in time to stamp out the fire just ignited and to rescue Eagle Feather.
- A white man deserts his sweetheart for an Indian girl, with disastrous results for himself and a group of settlers.
- Trapper Bill, a scout, gets into a quarrel with a drunken trader named Shunan, and worsts him in a fight. Shunan covets Silver Heels, an Indian maid, and the Chief barters her for presents. Shunan carries her off in triumph. She slips from his horse and runs into the woods. Shunan follows her and catches up with her near the edge of a cliff. She wounds him with her knife, but is disarmed and is about to be thrown over the cliff when Trapper Bill appears and forces Shunan over the cliff. He saves himself on the way down, and refusing help limps away. Bill takes Silver Heels to the Mission Church where they are married. Shunan drinks heavily and forces another fight upon Trapper Bill and is wounded in the shoulder by Silver Heels. Shunan thereupon rides to the Indian camp and joins the tribe. He persuades the Indians to raid the white man's corral and steal a number of their horses. The trappers hunt the Indians down, put them to rout and burn their tepees as a lesson. Shunan escapes. Some years pass and Silver Heels is called to the Happy Hunting Grounds leaving Bill to mourn her loss. The Mexicans are getting unbearable and a menace. Trapper Bill joins a regiment of trappers and scouts, and their services are gladly accepted by General Kearney at headquarters. Shunan offers his services as a spy to the Mexicans and is cheerfully received. Shunan gets useful information and leads an attack upon the American camp. They are besieged and suffer from the want of water and food. Trapper Bill offers to ride for relief and reinforcements. He successfully negotiates the Mexican lines and reaches the main camp in an exhausted condition. The reinforcements reach the hard-pressed American camp just in time to save it from being annihilated; the Mexicans are chased and many killed and captured. The prisoners are set free and Bill finds ultimate happiness and peace with one of the released girls.
- Bandit Pop Ryland and his two sons, Clint and Dave, are planning their biggest job; the printing and distribution of territorial bonds. The elder Ryland contracts a hired gunman, McCall, to dispose of his stepson, Tommy, who knows what his step-family members are up to. The Durango Kid captures McCall, takes the letter and presents himself, Steve Lacey, as the hired killer. He stages a fake killing, and discovers the Ryland's scheme. Cling ambushes Durango and is killed in a gunfight, and Durango also shoots McCall who has made an escape. Cash-Register salesman Smiley Burnette aids Steve/Durango in rounding up the remaining villains.
- One day, in the spring of 1812, Black Partridge, a friendly Pottawatomie chief, appeared before Captain N. Heald, the commander of the garrison at Fort Dearborn, which occupied the site of the city of Chicago previously to 1812, Singing Bird, a squaw, accompanied her father. Black Partridge handed back the famous "Peace Medal" to Commander Heald, telling him that the Indians were on the warpath and beyond control. Rawlins a dissolute Englishman, insulted Singing Bird, and was confined in the guard house, from which he escapade. He joined the Indians and incited them to attack and destroy the garrison and settlers. Captain Heald received a message, brought by a friendly Indian, from General Hull, telling him that Mackinaw had fallen and instructing him to evacuate the garrison and distribute the United States lands amongst the Indians. Rawlins plotted with the Indians to offer safe conduct to the whites at Fort Wayne. Heald deemed it policy to accept the offer, and the garrison and a handful of settlers evacuated and marched out. The attitude of the Indians was unmistakable and the band played the "Dead March in Saul." The attack was made, and with few exceptions the brave band was murdered. Captain Heald was overpowered and Mrs. Heald, standing bravely by her husband's side, was seized by Crouching Cat and was about to be captured when Singing Bird killed the Indian with a tomahawk, Rawlins endeavored to take her off, but Singing Bird pulled Mrs. Heald, badly wounded, upon her horse, and escaped with her. Rawlins had Heald tied to a tree, having saved him in order to torture him. Singing Bird drugged the guard's water, and freed Heald and helped him to escape. The brave Indian girl was badly wounded and died in Mrs. Heald's arms as a detachment of soldiers from Fort Wayne rode up to complete the rescue. The Indians burned the fort and celebrated their victory.
- Gray Dove, a squaw, has been a patient and faithful attendant to her Chief. He becomes infatuated with a young squaw, Briar Rose, who desires his whole attention. She persuades the Chief to get rid of Gray Dove. He gives her corn and water and despite her dumb entreaties he casts her out and she wanders out to the big desert with her little son, Red Deer. Hunger and thirst overtakes them and the woman, after giving the boy the last drop of water, folds him in her arms and lies down to await the advent of the Happy Hunting Grounds. A wagon train happens along and Big Bill and his wife find the child alive, the squaw having gone to await the coming of her son. They pick up the boy and bury the mother. Ten years pass and Red Deer grows to be a fine type of the educated Indian. He loves the woods and wilds, and one day, whilst setting traps for beavers, he meets the pretty little Indian maiden, Golden Willow. "Like turns to Like" and it is a case of love at first sight. Outside the fort, guards are watching the horses grazing, when a band of horse thieves ride up, kill the guards and escape with the horses. They sell them to the Indians. The garrison is aroused, ride out, see the horses in the Indian camp, attack it and take a number of the Indians prisoners. Little Golden Willow escapes and meets Red Deer. She tells him the circumstances and together they ride to the fort. The Colonel listens and is convinced. He apologizes to the Chief and releases the Indian prisoners. Red Deer joins the tribe and asks for and is given Golden Willow for his squaw, and Red Deer is made Chief for his services in saving the Red Men. The spirit of Gray Dove rises above the Happy Hunting Grounds and blesses her son and his mate.
- An Indian woman, taking justice into her own hands, kills her lawless husband for the murder of her father.
- The padre feels the call to preach to the wilder tribes and ascends the tortuous trails to the mountain village home of Conchita, where he teaches the Indians kindly ways and good deeds. Conchita, daughter of Pedro, is impressed by padre's earnest teachings and is prevailed on to accompany him down to the mission to be instructed. The days pass and happy hours with Conchita awaken forbidden love in the padre's heart, which he conquers only by the timely arrival of Ricardo, a Spanish grandee, who woos and wins Conchita and marries her. But another, El Sombriado, the black one from the mountains, has a life-long love for Conchita, companion of his boyhood days, and having lost her through marriage, he comes down to the mission and slays Ricardo even as the ceremony is concluded. Conchita takes her oath of vengeance and follows El Sombriado to the mountains. She in turn is followed by the padre. At the wayside shrine she renews her oath, and the padre, close on her heels, is in the meantime captured by El Sombriado and a few renegade friends. Conchita discovers the padre a prisoner and releases him, to be followed by El Sombriado and his men. A meeting takes place beneath the wayside shrine and El Sombriado, now maddened by jealousy, attacks Conchita with his knife. Conchita, fresh from the renewal of her oath, meets him, knife in hand, and in the struggle that follows El Sombriado falls back against the cross of the shrine. Aged by time and weather, the arm of the cross falls and, striking the "black one" on the head, ends his life. The padre offers a prayer over the dead Indian, while the others flee in terror, thinking the punishment of El Sombriado divine. Conchita is returned to her mountain home by the padre, who then seeks solace in the rosary and cell, while Conchita goes back to her father's home, her oath fulfilled.
- Lucy, the daughter of Major Brown, takes a ride beyond the stockade. She allows her horse to wander away and it is followed and caught by a young Indian warrior, Swift Deer, who sees her safely back to the fort. He worships the lovely "Pale Face." The trader, Alden, covets Blue Bird, Red Bear's squaw, and attempting to make love to her is attacked by the warrior, whom he kills. The Indians swear death to all pale faces and take the warpath. Swift Deer decides to warn the fort, but seeing Lucy in the arms of Corporal Taylor his anger is aroused and he joins his tribe. The Indians seize their opportunity when a large company start from the garrison on scouting duty. The fort is surprised and hard pressed. Swift Deer digs a trench under the stockade and crawls through, intent upon killing Lucy and Taylor. Lucy sees him and runs to him as a friend. Her ingenuity disarms Swift Deer and he resolves to save her. He leads her through the trench and together they ride away and meet the Major and his company. On the way the Indian sways and falls, and Lucy sees that he has been badly wounded when crawling through the trench. She proceeds alone and meets the cavalry, which dash up to the fort and rescue the decimated garrison. Swift Deer dies happy to have done the Pale Face lady a service.
- The story is a repetition of history, of the Indians and whites living in peace until one of the whites commits an overt act, which arouses the redmen. In this case Johnson, the trapper, finds Peach Blossom out in the fields gathering herbs and kidnaps her. The girl sees the Indians, out on a hunt, calls to them, the trapper throws her to the ground, and then escapes. Eagle Eye, in revenge, goes to Johnson's cabin and takes his boy, who is carried to the Indian camp and turned over to Mona. She becomes a little mother to the child, refusing to permit others to touch him. Mrs. Johnson, discovering the loss of the boy, rides to the fort and informs the commander. He orders out a troop. When the Indians hear of the approach of the soldiers they break camp and take up a position in what seems a very poor tactical position in a hollow, where the soldiers can not only shoot down into them, but roll rocks among them. The Indians are captured and lodged in the stockade. Big Rock and Dark Feather scale the fence. Big Rock steals up behind the sentry, throws him to the ground and with Mona gets away. The soldiers pursue. The chief, exhausted, is overtaken and shot. The Indian woman draws a knife and plunges it into her own breast.
- During a raid on a fort, the Apache chief's daughter saves the life of a white man who has been good to her. Her father kills her to save his family's honor. The whites at the fort honor her by covering her body with an American flag.
- Indians adopt an orphaned boy and bring him up as one of their own. When called upon to torture a white girl, he rebels.
- Darkfeather graduates from Hopi. She returns to her tribe, met by her father, Ungatah, wearing the latest modem clothes. Kotah, an old admirer, shows his dislike for modem ideas by presenting her with a beautiful beaded leather dress. She assumes the garb of her tribe and again rides the prairies and forests. Ned, a surveyor, rides from his camp one day and becomes lost in the desert. He is forced to abandon his dead horse, and is rescued from death by thirst by Darkfeather. She takes him to the village and nurses him to health. While drifting in a canoe one day, during his convalescence, he tells her of his love. She accepts it, and on the bank he cuts two hearts in the bark of an old tree and carves their initials under them. Returning to the village, he openly declares his love for her by placing an engagement ring on her finger before the Indians. Later he leaves, promising to return. Kotah distrusts Ned, but says nothing. Darkfeather, roaming over the old places, waits his coming, but when mail is brought to the camp and none for her, she becomes doubtful. Later, a party of surveyors pass through the village and stop to buy feed. Darkfeather questions Jim about Ned, He tells her Ned is married and shows her a newspaper containing a notice thereof. Darkfeather, filled with anger and jealousy, at once assumes her civilian clothes and goes to the city, learning Ned's whereabouts through an old envelope he left in a discarded jacket. She finds Ned and his wife in the garden of their palatial home, and decides to strike them down, but love conquers her jealousy and she leaves quietly. Returning to the village, she discards her civilian dress and carries all relics of civilization in a bundle to the trysting tree of the hearts and initials. Here she casts the bundle of clothing into a huge fire, which consumes them as well as the tree.
- Lieutenant Carter, with his young wife and one year old baby, arrives at the new settlement, where they are well received. A squaw, Machee Chee, looks with awe at the pretty baby and is allowed to carry it. The young couple go to the store to buy a cradle. The storekeeper laughs and tells them that they have no use for them there. The cowboys overhear this. They get a log and carve out a rough, but comfortable cradle, which they present at a party given on baby's first birthday. The settlers invade the Modoc lands and their intrusion is fiercely resented by the Indians. The settlers stand by their guns and continue to settle. The Indians set out upon their era of extermination. They attack isolated settlers and massacre them. At Yreka the settlers welcome the cavalry, and two miners, coming upon the ruins of a wagon train with its victims, ride back to Yreka and give the alarm. Lieut. Carter bids his wife good-bye and leads his troopers and the settlers to the Indian camp, where they propose to punish the redskins. The Indian scouts are on the alert. One returns to the camp to report the coming of the cavalry and then goes out to meet the cavalry and offers to lead them to the camp. Carter threatens him with death if he plays them false. The Modocs resolve to hide their whereabouts and remove their camp, leaving it sorrowfully. Machee Chee is with them. The Indian scout comes to the brow of a hill, warning the cavalry to wait whilst he goes ahead to reconnoiter. He disappears over the hill, cuts his horse adrift and hides in a hollow tree. Carter soon realizes he has been fooled, and follows. When they have passed by the Indian scout, he cuts through the brush and eventually reaches the new camp and reports to his chief, being rewarded with an eagle feather for his bravery and cunning. The Modocs are approached by the Shoshones and an alliance against the pale face is formed. The war dance is danced. Machee Chee listens and fears for her white friends. She steals off and warns the settlers. She continues on to Yreka. Her horse goes lame. She runs on foot and arrives exhausted, but has fulfilled her mission. The Indians attack a settler's cabin. One Indian climbs on the roof. The woman within pours feathers on the fire and the Indian staggers and falls from the roof half suffocated. The Indians are interrupted by the coming of the soldiers. Machee Chee tells Mrs. Carter she must go and help save the cavalry and rides away. She spurs on and from a point of vantage sees the Indians preparing to ambush the cavalry. Machee Chee comes up as the battle is being waged. She sees Carter fall, struck by a bullet. She puts on a dead brave's head dress to disguise herself and drags him away, helps him on a horse and rides to his home. The soldiers and the settlers rally, turn the tide of battle and rout the red skins. Machee Chee brings Carter to his wife and when his wound is all attended to she goes to the cradle, picks up the baby she is going to remain to nurse, and places it in Carter's arms.
- Juanita, captured by Indians, and subsequently saved from outlaws by a young deputy, is eventually reunited with her father.
- The pioneers are moving west. The guide Dickson, and Jim are both in love with Lucy. Jim has the call. Dickson cannot accept his defeat gracefully, and when Jim finds him forcing his attention upon Lucy, there is a struggle, in which Dickson is worsted. Dickson temporarily abandons the wagon train, which runs out of water on the desert. Great suffering results. Dickson rides up with water and offers to supply the wagon train if Lucy is given him in marriage. Lucy, seeing the suffering around her, offers to go with him, but Jim and others interfere and he rides away. Jim starts out to find water and is found on the point of death by some trappers, who revive him. They ride in haste to the wagons and find a few survivors. Lucy being one of them. The refugees are taken to the settlement. Later the Indians visit the settlement for trading purposes, Dickson accompanying them. He sees and recognizes Jim and Lucy, but they do not see him. Dickson awaits his chance, selects a moment when Lucy is out alone, seizes her and rides off with her. He takes her to his squaw. Red Flower's tepee. Jim and the trappers give chase when her absence is discovered, but have to abandon their search. Red Flower resents the intrusion of the "white squaw," but relents when Lucy soothes her and attends to the bruises inflicted by Dickson. She crawls through the back of the tepee with Lucy, leads her to the edge of the cliff and going down first, the two women cautiously descend to the bottom of the cliff. Dickson and the Indians set out to track them, but Red Flower's cunning is more than equal to theirs, and after hiding during the day, Red Flower steals up to the camp at nightfall and takes two horses. The women ride away. Dickson and the Indians hear the sound of galloping and follow. The girls reach the border of the settlement just in time, and Jim and the trappers ride out and rescue them. Dickson and the braves are pursued, and Dickson is killed. Jim and Lucy are reunited.
- Joe Carlisle sells his trading vessel and visits his friends, the Marks family. He finds that Ed Marks, the eldest boy, is sick and when the doctor recommends that he go west, Joe persuades the family to join him. They agree and Joe together with Mrs. Marks, Ed and his sister Jess, and the two children Dick and Gertie, start in a covered camp wagon. On the way they are attacked by Indians, but beat them off. The children admire the tattoo mark on Joe's arm and persuade him to tattoo their arms in the same way. They build a log cabin and settle down to western life keeping on good terms with the surrounding Indians, until one day Joe surprises Moon Face stealing a hatchet and orders him off the place. Moon Face treasures a grudge and one day swoops down upon the children while they are at play and carries off little Gertie. Dick runs home with the news and the Indian is pursued, but without success. The family mourn the loss of Gertie. Ten years pass by and Dick grows into a handsome youth. He goes out hunting with his chum Cy. They happen on an Indian camp and are both smitten with the charms of the Chief's daughter Star Eyes. Their visits are repeated and Dick notes with regret that Cy possesses the first place in the girl's affections. Cy asks the Chief for the hand of Star Eyes and is ordered away. Star Eyes runs away and joins Cy. The escape is discovered and several Indians follow them and, in a running fight Cy is wounded in the arm. Star Eyes, from their stand point of vantage, keeps the Indians at bay until a posse of cowboys, led by Dick and Joe appears and the Indians are routed. Star Eyes is wounded in the arm, and when Joe splits her sleeve he discovers the tattoo mark and Star Eves is no more, But Gertrude takes her place and the family rejoice.