Princess Bess is an ancient Modoc squaw. In her early days, when she was a beautiful forest princess, she championed the white settlers, saving an entire community of Americans from massacre at the hands of her fellow Modocs. As the story opens, the old crone is seated before the fire outside a tepee, dreaming of her tragic past. Two little brown children run up to her and ask her to tell them the great story of her girlhood. The ancient princess takes them into her lap and graphically weaves together the dramatic events of the saving of Yreka, Cal., from surprise and burning by the Modocs.
—Moving Picture World synopsis