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- A party of emigrants are on the trail west. They have reached the final outpost and Captain Steele and his troop have bid them good-bye. Crow, a renegade half-breed, and his tribe try to make friends with the settlers. The head of the redmen is enamored with Dot. She very quickly gives him to understand that he is obnoxious to her. In retaliation the Indians are incited by Crow to attack the whites. The redmen set the blockhouse on fire. The flames reach the magazine and the blockhouse is destroyed. Some of the party have left the building before the explosion. Among these are Dot. She is seized and carried away by Crow. Jack crawls out of the wreckage and goes to find Jim, who had ridden out into the forest to make a clearing. Jack finally manages to reach the husband of Dot, who immediately rides to the fort. The troops are assembled and go to find the redmen. Jim is with them. As the issue is joined he sees Crow put Dot on the back of a horse and try to escape. He pursues and overtakes them. There is a sharp combat. Jim is the victor.
- Rhoda arrives at the wayside inn to spend her summer vacation. The next day while out walking Rhoda falls into the lake and is rescued by Dr. Boswell. The doctor and Rhoda become fast friends. A few days later while she and the doctor are out walking, he reaches over a cliff to obtain some wildflowers for her, loses his balance and rolling down the hill, lies unconscious among the rocks. Rhoda calls for help but getting no response she runs back to the inn and tells of the accident. In the meantime a tramp, who has been sent out by a party of hobos to secure a pail of water, discovers the doctor. He carries the insensible man to the hut where the tramps are located and all of the doctor's valuables are removed and divided among the hobos. Rhoda and a rescue party arrive at the cliff and find the doctor has disappeared. That afternoon one of the tramps comes to the inn and offers to sell Rhoda a locket and chain. She recognizes the locket as a memento she has given the doctor. Informing the tramp she will go to her room and get her purse, she runs into the hotel and tells the story to the guests. Money is given to Rhoda and she is instructed to complete the purchase, which she does. The tramp is followed by the guests of the inn and the entire band of ruffians is captured and the doctor released. Dr. Boswell, realizing his prompt rescue is due to Rhoda, tells her of his gratitude and asks her hand in marriage.
- Wentworth, a young trader, bidding his wife and child good-bye, goes to the Indian camp, where he trades tobacco and trinkets for skins. When the trading is finished, Wentworth and the Indians are startled by the incantations of the Medicine Man. Upon inquiring, Wentworth learns that Starlight, the daughter of Chief Lone Hawk, is seriously ill, and realizing that the fanatical supplications of the Indians to the spirits will not do the sick girl any good, he ministers to her wants by giving her some of his medicine. This is observed by the Medicine Man, who vows that he will wreak vengeance upon the tribe if Wentworth is not gotten rid of. Whereupon, the Indians make the trader a prisoner. During the incarceration of Wentworth Starlight rapidly regains her strength, and one day she liberates him. Knowing that the tribe will seek revenge against her, she goes with the trader. They become separated on the desert, and Starlight manages to reach the post. The pursuing Indians are held in abeyance, and Starlight, full of gratitude for Wentworth, brings his wife and child to safety. In the meantime, Wentworth meets a party of settlers, and as he is telling them his experience the Indians put in another appearance. They are again routed and Wentworth escapes. He makes his way to Fort Wilcox, where he informs the commander of the impending attack of the Indians. The troop is about to start out to quell the outbreak when Starlight and Wentworth's wife and child are sighted. The women are cared for. The Indians, who have returned home are rejoicing, when their festivities are interrupted by the troops. Starlight has followed the soldiers, and from a neighboring hill she sees how the tribe is wiped out and the wigwams burned. She goes back to the fort, where she begs the Wentworths to make her their servant, as she is without a home.
- Rhys Pryce, a soldier of fortune, finds James Boyd, a Mexican Custom officer, who has been thrown into a cave by a band of smugglers. A few days later Boyd receives word to intercept arms and ammunition that are being smuggled across the border into Mexico by the Insurrectos, whom Pryce has incited to fight for the freedom of their country. Pryce, being hard pressed by the Federals, seeks shelter in Boyd's house. Boyd readily recognizes the fugitive as the man who befriended him while in distress, and in gratitude he helps Pryce to escape. Boyd's action, however, has been witnessed by a Federal spy, who reports the affair to the commanding officer. He is court-martialed and sentenced to be shot. Before the execution can take place, however, Boyd's sister rides with all speed to the Insurrecto camp and urges Pryce to save her brother. In answer to her entreaty, Pryce, at the head of a strong party of Insurrectos, arrives just in time to save Boyd and defeat the Federals.
- Not being successful in his suit for the hand of Helen Sawyer, and to show the father of the young lady that he is made of the same material as he is, John Thorpe, a wealthy New Yorker, leaves for the west, but without any predetermined destination. While traveling, however, he meets an old man called Uncle Billy, and upon this man's advice, Thorpe purchases a ranch in Buffalo, Wyo. Not long afterwards, the homesteaders are accused by the large cattle owners of stealing their cattle, and they give Tom Horn, commonly known as "The Killer," a list of those they desire to get rid of. Thorpe's name heads the list, but The Killer finds that Thorpe is his match and is thrown down. For this Thorpe wins the admiration of Cora Sands, the sweetheart of The Killer. As they are walking along the road, they are seen by Helen and her father, he having been summoned there to look after his ranch near Buffalo. Upon the suggestion of Sawyer, the large cattle owners formulate a plan to annihilate the homesteaders, and The Killer goes to Buffalo to get help and warns Cora Sands that he is going to kill Thorpe. Acting upon his threat Cora goes to advise Thorpe of his impending death, but finds that he had left. Fearing for his safety, she dresses as a boy and follows him. She is mistaken for Thorpe by The Killer and is shot. In the melee between the homesteaders and the bad men, Thorpe is wounded. He manages to reach Sawyer's house, where he is rescued from the clutches of The Killer by the timely arrival of the troops. Later, realizing that she does really care for Thorpe, Helen gains her father's consent to be his wife.
- Karen's 18th birthday is coming up and everybody in the Arnold household is preparing for it but her. But is it because she doesn't want such a pointless traditional or because she's not ready for it?