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- A child overhears Union plans to attack a Confederate wagon train. She tells them to a Confederate officer who rides through Union lines and leads an attack on the would-be ambushers.
- Young Hazel Phillips is courted by two young men, Evans and Porter, in a Western town. She favors Porter, and the two are married. Evans conceals his chagrin and jealousy, and continues as a friend of the young couple. One day a prospector comes into town with a bag of gold dust and nuggets, and tells an interested crowd of the big strike made in the southwest. Evans decides to seek his fortune there, and persuades Porter to accompany him. Hazel consents, and bids her husband an affectionate farewell. The two men strike through the desert, and after months of hardship and privation Porter finally finds gold. His extreme jealousy has made Evans content to have Porter with him, as he gloated to himself that he was keeping him away from Hazel. When Porter runs in with the glad news, Evans becomes madly angered, as he realizes that Porter will go back to his wife with a fortune. An insane rage, seizes him as he realizes how happy they will be. Before the astonished Porter can defend himself, Evans leaps upon him and strikes him to the earth with the butt of his pistol. The injured man staggers to his feet, but is no match for the infuriated Evans, who rains blow after blow upon his partner's head. Porter sinks to the ground, and Evans leaves him for dead. Evans goes to Hazel and tells her a false story of how Porter died of illness, how he nursed him through it all, and how he had come to convey her husband's dying message to her. Porter is found by a tribe of Indians and nursed back to life. He recovers his health and strength but his memory is a blank, and he is adopted into the tribe. Evans goes back to the gold mine and works it. Knowing that Hazel will soon be in want, having lost her parents and with a baby to support, he sets his trap cunningly. When he goes back to ask her to marry him he finally wins her consent by persuading her it is for the good of her baby, and she accompanies him back to the wild, western country, where he has built a cabin. A few days after her arrival, the baby wanders off into the woods and is playing on the banks of a brook when it is taken by Indians. As they are hurrying away with the child Porter appears, and the sight of the innocent baby arouses him. Not knowing that it is his own child, he makes them set her free, and she runs home with a tale which her mother believes is only childish imagination. Silently and noiselessly, Porter watches the woman through the window, and the sight of her face touches his slumbering memory, but does not awaken it. Troubled, he goes back to the camp, unable to untangle the confused thoughts which crowd upon his brain. At this time the government agent, accompanied by an escort of soldiers, calls upon the Indians and serves notice on them to vacate the land and move to a reservation. The Indians resent the order, and wild disorder prevails in the village. Somebody strikes a blow, ready weapons spring forth, and in a moment an avalanche of redskins throw themselves upon the soldiers. Porter is struck on the head with the butt of a rifle, and the shock instantly clears his mind. The face of the woman in the cabin comes before him, and he knows it is Hazel. The soldiers put up a futile resistance, and are soon dispatched. Porter knows that it is but the beginning, that the Indians will go on the warpath, that they will hurl themselves upon the emigrants and settlers, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake, and he thinks of Hazel and the baby. He rushes away, hoping to reach the cabin before the rest of the tribe arrive, and succeeds. With the lapse of years, in his paint and feathers, he is not recognized by Hazel at first. From the window they see the long line of Indians thundering toward them. There is no time to be lost, so Porter throws a table behind the door, crowds Hazel and the baby behind it, and stands there unconcernedly. The Indians rush in and demolish and steal everything, but are adroitly kept from discovering the woman and child. Evans comes home. The Indians hide, and as he approaches the cabin he is attacked and killed, his body stripped of his clothes, and the Indians go on. In the meantime the soldiers have been rushed to the scene of warfare, and corner the redskins engaging them in a terrific fight, in which the Indians are badly defeated. Porter, with the cunning learned from the Indians, has managed to bring his wife and child to a place of safety, and the reunion is splendidly acted. The last scene shows the vengeance of fate, the dilapidated cabin, with Evans' lying in front, around which coyotes are sniffing.
- Moving Picture World, 5 October 1912 - A melodrama of the Wild West which leaves nothing to be desired for those who enjoy bandits, bandit lore and bandit hunting. They kidnap a girl in this case, a doctor leads a sheriff's posse to her rescue and some interesting and novel adventures follow. The production has an admirable setting in a rough mountain country and the photography is praiseworthy.
- John Adams is a pioneer, living in a log cabin with his wife and baby girl. He digs a bear pit. A big black bear falls crashing into it. An Indian comes upon the captured animal and shoots it and secures the skin. Adams meets him with the bearskin on his arm and attempts to take the hide away. The Indian draws a knife, and a fierce encounter takes place, in which Adams lands a crushing blow on the Indian's jaw. knocking him down. As Adams walks away the Indian regains his feet, and fires at the trapper. As the report rings out and the bullet sings past his head, Adams drops to the ground and feigns death. The Indian runs up and leans over him and is clutched by the throat by Adams, who leaps to his feet. The Indian is badly wounded and Adams departs. The redskin happens to be the chief's son, and when he is found by his tribe their rage is unbounded. A war dance is held, and they decide to retaliate by an attack upon the whites. Mrs. Brown, a neighbor, is taken ill and her husband drives over and gets Mrs. Adams to minister to her. She leaves baby Dot alone. The Indians finally reach the Adams cabin. Dot leaps into the huge bucket at the well and descends to the bottom. The Indians sack the cabin and are about to depart when they spy Adams coming home. Quickly hiding, they await his approach and leaping upon him he is overpowered and carried away. The cabin is set on fire. Dot comes from her hiding place, and with water from the well manages to extinguish the blaze. She then barricades the door, and tremblingly awaits, she knows not what. Coming home in Brown's rig. Mrs. Adams sees the Indians galloping toward her from the vicinity of her home. Brown wheels the horse around, but her mother instinct is aroused to the highest pitch and she refuses to go on. Brown then resolves upon a desperate measure, and secreting Mrs. Adams in the bushes he drives out into the open and plies the whip to his horse, drawing the pursuit of the Indians. Mrs. Adams races home and hammers at the door. Dot, thinking it is the Indians, lifts a heavy gun across the back of a chair and is about to pull the trigger when her heart fails her, and she turns away and hides in the fire-place. Mrs. Adams calls to her, and at the sound of her voice the little girl springs to the door with a glad cry and unlatches it. In the meantime Adams has been securely bound and placed in a tepee to await torture, with a guard in front. Straining at his bonds he finds he cannot undo them, and shaking himself forward he manages to drop a few matches out of his shirt pocket. Working with his hands behind him he gathers up twigs and leaves, and scratching the match with his mouth he sets the mass on fire. He turns over and holds his hands into this fire, burning off the cords, and is free. Hundreds of emigrants and settlers seek the protection of the fort. The gates are scarcely closed behind them when the Indians attack. A sensational and thrilling battle takes place in which the soldiers and emigrants are being defeated when they resolve upon a desperate course. A huge bomb is made of a keg of powder, and as the Indians gather to rush upon the weakened gate it is thrown into their midst, blowing them to atoms. With a wild rush the whites rush from the stockade and attack the bewildered Indians, and the few surviving redskins are killed or driven off. Adams throttles his guard and escapes. He is rent with conflicting emotions, but entertains a forlorn hope that his family may have escaped. Running to the door he calls to his wife, and his heart leaps with joy when she replies, and with Dot rushes into his arms.
- The Indians are on the warpath, and their depredations have reached such a length that the government has massed its troops and after much difficulty surrounded them. The Indians are defeated. In one of the tepees Col. Ward finds a little girl about 10 years old, grief-stricken over the loss of her parents. He brings her back to the fort, and he and his wife adopt her. The Indians lay down their arms, and at a peace conference a treaty is solemnly signed by which the Indians agree not to venture beyond certain boundaries, which the government agrees to protect from further intrusion and settlement, Mary, the child, is sent to an eastern boarding school. One morning the Indians get excited over the appearance of a long wagon train which wends its way into their territory. The emigrants prepare to settle down. Wild consternation prevails among the Indians. A delegation is appointed to call at the fort in protest against the invasion of their hunting ground. Colonel Ward sees the justice of the Indians' protest, and receives them kindly. He promises to take the matter up with the Washington officials. The Indians insist upon the emigrants being removed, and to this the Colonel turns a deaf ear. Mary has just come home from college. The Indians meet her in the yard, and the attraction of race overcomes the years of education and civilization. These are her people, her brothers, and she listens to their impassioned recital of their wrongs, and then bids them wall while she intercedes for them. Mary eloquently pleads the cause of the Indians to the Colonel, but he is helpless in the premises and can only promise to do his best. It is the first time Mary has ever asked anything which was not granted her by her doting foster-parent, and she feels it keenly The Indians appeal to the government agent, and as they become excited he orders them from his office. They refuse to move. Angered, he draws his revolver and in the scuffle that ensues the weapon is discharged and he falls to the floor mortally wounded. The Indian police and soldiers rush in and arrest the chief. A court-martial is held and the Indian is sentenced to be shot. Mary has overheard the trial and determines to save the chief. She secures permission to visit him in his cell and unfolds to him her plan, which is to remove the bullets from the guns and replace them with blank: cartridges. When the soldiers fire he is to fall and feign death, and, when his body is turned over to his tribe, to continue the deception until he is safely away. That day at midnight, Mary makes her way to the library and extracts the bullets, replacing them with blank cartridges. In her excitement she drops one of the guns. It awakens the Colonel, who starts to investigate. Mary listens a moment, and hearing nothing goes on with her work. The Colonel sees the dark form moving in the room and fires. Hastily lighting a candle he picks up the dead body and sees who it is. Mrs. Ward is frantic with grief, and the Colonel with difficulty controls himself, a glance at the guns explains the situation, and he replaces the bullets and decides to conceal Mary's death until after the execution. The next morning the fort is surrounded by hordes of Indians. The Chief, confident that Mary has carried out her plan, boldly takes his place facing the firing squad. With a dozen bullets in his body he drops like a log. The Indians laugh merrily at what they consider his clever acting. He is placed on a stretcher and given to his tribe. When they think they have reached a safe distance from the soldiers they draw back the blanket which covers their chief, and then, for the first time, they learn that he is dead.
- A wounded Yankee soldier takes refuge in the home of his onetime Confederate sweetheart.