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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.
- 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.
- In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.
- 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.
- 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.
- The great lover Don Juan comes to the assistance of his queen.
- 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.
- A sheriff's milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.
- A young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé's family and turns a happy household against itself.
- The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials.
- 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.
- Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.
- A fictionalized version of famous opera composer Victor Herbert where he witnesses the romance, stardom, parenthood, and troubled experiences of his star singers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.)
- The Durango Kid and Marshal Smiley Burnette complicate a corrupt mayor and his henchman's efforts to take over a town.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The old blind chief, believing it time to appoint a new chief to succeed him, selects Swift Wind, his son. The latter is promised the beautiful Rainbow for his squaw, and thereby incurs the enmity and hatred of the warrior Black Ox, his half-brother, and Dark Cloud, the latter's mother. Black Ox and Dark Cloud plot to get the chieftainship away from Swift Wind, and Dark Cloud steals Swift Wind's fur covering and bear's tooth necklace and puts them on Black Ox. The two enter the old chief's tepee and make him believe that Black Ox is Swift Wind, and the old man orders Dark Cloud to put his head dress, necklace and other articles on Black Ox. As they emerge from the tepee Dark Cloud encounters Rainbow, claps her hand over the astonished maiden's mouth and drags her from the scene. Black Ox is acclaimed the new chief and the Indians greet him. The feast is prepared, and while it is in progress Swift Wind returns. He scents the treachery and, after a desperate knife fight with Black Ox, he succeeds in telling the old chief of the deception. The chief commands silence and summons the tribe, and is about to address them when the dread call comes and he falls dead. Despite his protests Swift Wind is banished and the struggling and heart-broken Rainbow is held by Black Ox and his mother, Dark Cloud. Swift Wind wanders in the desert and suffers from hunger and thirst. He is eventually rescued by a company of trappers, who take him with them. Later Black Ox and his warriors attack the trappers' camp, and as Black Ox scales the defenders' stockade he comes face to face with Swift Wind. They have a knife duel, and as Swift Wind is about to kill his rival he is wounded by a shot from the outside, and Black Ox escapes. Dark Cloud shows Rainbow her wedding dress, and the latter watches her chance and escapes, after half strangling Dark Cloud. She meets the trappers on their way to punish the Indians, and mounts behind her lover, Swift Wind. The Indians suffer defeat, and Black Ox is banished and Swift Wind is proclaimed the chief of the tribe, and the trappers and Indians smoke the pipe of peace.
- 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.
- The resident of Gansoor, who is responsible to the British Government for the happenings in the Kingdom of the Maharajah, receives a visit from a friend, Lieutenant Clifford of the U.S. Navy. He is sumptuously entertained by the Maharajah and falls in love at first sight with that ruler's favorite Nautch girl, Zahanna. They meet clandestinely and are observed by Hyzan Singh, who informs the Maharajah of the happening. The Maharajah declares that the lieutenant must die, but is afraid to act for fear of the reprisals which must come at the hands of the British. He plots with the Nahuni, a jealous Nautch girl, who is responsible for showing Hyzan the clandestine meetings. The lieutenant is invited to participate in a tiger hunt and readily agrees. At the last moment the Maharajah pleads stress of business and the lieutenant goes alone with the Hyzan and a few beaters. The tigers are seen in the excitement. It is easy to persuade Lieutenant Clifford to take one direction, whilst the wily Hyzan awaits the return of the beaters who accompany Clifford and desert him when his attention is directed to the big game at hand. They all return to the Maharajah and report their complete success and are overheard by Zahanna, who decides to go to the rescue of her lover. The lieutenant comes upon three tigers and at once they turn upon him, and he barely reaches a cabin made of jungle grass and gets inside when the beasts are at his heels and springing at the door. He struggles to hold the frail door against their savage rushes and looks around to face a huge cobra which is about to strike him. He fires through the door and the tigers run away frightened and killing the reptile as it strikes at him. He gets outside in an exhausted condition, and he discovers he is lost and spends the night in a cabin in fear. In the meantime the Nautch girl has bribed one of the beaters with jewels to take her to where Clifford was left. They hunt the night through and Zahanna separates from the beater for a while. In so doing she stumbles upon the lair of the tigers and when they attack her, she crawls into a hollow log and fires at the brutes as they enter the log after her. Half fainting she wonders what to do. Clifford hears the shot and finds her as the beater also comes up attracted by the shot. Zahanna is afraid to return, but Clifford tells her that the British residents will protect her and they go together.
- After separating Lee and his bride, and stirring up discord among the Indians, prospector Wade receives his just deserts.
- 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.
- Dan Parks is framed by his partner in their freight hauling company by using assets to smuggle stolen government gold, but T-men Steve Ellison and Smiley Burnette work to expose the real culprits.
- 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.
- 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.
- A visit from Captain Dan to Mona at the Indian village rouses the jealousy of the Snake, a snake priest.
- 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.
- "It is all about how a British captain, in East India, deserts his wife and goes with another woman into the interior to hunt. The wife goes to some relatives and there meets Clifford, a young officer who falls in love with her. her little boy wanders away and the searching party runs across numerous tigers before finding the lad. While searching for her boy, the wife comes across her husband (Bainbridge), fatally wounded by a fall from a horse and in the coils of the python. She rescues him from the python but he dies, anyhow, and she is free to marry Clifford. Incidentally Clifford discharges a Hindoo servant and the latter waylays Clifford in the jungle. Before he can kill Clifford, a python kills the Hindoo."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- An Indian woman, taking justice into her own hands, kills her lawless husband for the murder of her father.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lieut. Richards is in charge of the engineering corps which is running the telegraph line across the desert. Many of the Indians have never seen the poles and the wires before and are afraid of the "strings which sing." Little Mona is not afraid, but is very curious and wonders what weird song the wires sing. She tiptoes cautiously to the pole, puts her ear against it and listens, entranced at the musical hum. Lieut. Richards watches her with cynical amusement. He accosts her. She is much interested in the good looking, kind white man. He sees her again and again and amuses himself with her artlessness. She, poor child, falls in love with him and gives him a pretty string of beads. Her head and heart are so full of this stranger that she no longer listens to the young brave, Choco, and he grows suspicious and watches. A dispatch is sent to Richards from headquarters, telling him to use every precaution to avoid trouble with the unrestful Indians. He warns his men. Richards meets Mona near a telegraph pole and takes her in his arms and kisses her. He tells her that the wires are singing to her "I love you, I love you," and that they will always tell her the same sweet story. She, poor child, believes him. Choco hears and sees it all and going to his chief tells him. The chief orders Mona to stay in the camp and to keep away from the pale face. She rebels. One day an Indian tries to steal a gun and belt. A trooper fires at him and wounds him. He escapes to his tribe and the Indians jump at the excuse to start a fight. Mona divines their intentions and runs away and tells her lover of the uprising. The Indians surprise the advance body of engineers and massacre them. They tie the body of one man on a horse with an arrow still in him, and set it loose. The horse reaches the cavalry camp. The captain, doubting his ability to cope with the Indians, sends a man out to climb the nearest telegraph pole and send a message for help. The man is seen by the Indians, but manages to climb the pole and is able to send part of the message before a bullet finds its billet in his body and he falls. The unfinished message tells enough of the awful tale to enable the commander to know where to send reinforcements, and they start for the scene of unrest. Lieut. Richards and his party are hemmed in at Elks Horn. They suffer from thirst and Richards offers to go and try to break through the Indians and get water. Mona, from a hillside, sees his brave action and steals away and joins him and helps him get the water. He suffers a temporary collapse. She revives him and helps him on his way back. He gets through and the water is passed around to the suffering men. The cavalry arrives and relieves the gallant little band. Mona helps to nurse the lieutenant, but as he recovers he gets tired of her attentions and his one desire is to get east. He is promoted and granted a three months' leave of absence. Choco escapes and determines upon a terrible revenge. He gets his bow and arrows and stealthily awaits his chance to kill Richards for stealing Mona from him, for he knows the lieutenant is not in earnest. The time for Richards' departure arrives and he gets his belongings together. Mona, with a premonition of disaster, will not leave him and he looks around for an excuse to get away from her. He gets her to sit by the telegraph pole and listen to the love song and promises to return very soon. He puts his coat over her shoulders and his hat on her head and leaves her so. Choco steals up, sees what he believes to be the accursed white face and a quivering arrow pierces the trusting girl's breast. He runs up to gloat over his rival's suffering and is grief stricken at what he finds. Lieut. Richards forgets all about his flirtation with the Indian maiden as he clasps the "girl he left behind him" in his arms and Choco stands, immobile, with the grief eating his faithful heart out by the grave of little Mona in the solitary desert.
- 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.
- Mona, a beautiful Indian girl, and daughter of the Chief, had given all her passionate love to Ortega, a brave. The old chief takes the attachment with stoic indifference. The young Indian couple are wrapped up in each other until the white man comes. Ortega and two warriors are hunting. They see the prairie schooner without the sign of life. They approach with Indian caution and find a man, a woman and a child lying within. The woman and child had gone to join their maker. The man has a spark of life left. They work over him and Ortega fetches water from the life saving spring. They take the man back to the Indian camp and nurse him back to life. Mona finds two books in the wagon and the man surprises Ortega and Mona pouring over them. Ortega is fascinated. The pictures of Eastern activity and invention fill his brain, and Mona's heart sinks and she tries to get rid of the man and the books. The man goes, grateful and somewhat amused, and the spirit of civilization having entered Ortega's soul, he follows and enters a college. Mona, even with his promise to return constantly in her mind, broods and her primitive hatred for the whites takes possession of her. Ortega does well. His brain is abnormal, and in due time he writes a brilliant thesis. His roommate sees it and determines to make it his own. He and another youth plot and so arrange matters that Ortega is accused of theft. He hotly denies the charge, but seeing he is not believed, shakes off the white man's shackles and starts back to his tribe and Mona. In the meantime, the girl's character has undergone a change and believing Ortega has gone from her life, awaits a chance to wreak her vengeance upon the whites. The squaws avoid her and even the medicine man is afraid of her. She often rides out alone with her faithful horse, and one day sees two prospectors taking a drink in the spring where the hated white man was revived. She gets her quiver of arrows and dips the arrowheads in rattlesnake poison, and going to the spring, contaminates the water with the arrowheads. She awaits some definite result and sees, with fiendish satisfaction, a man approach the spring garbed in the white man's apparel. He drinks, staggers and falls. She goes to gloat over her work and finds her lover, Ortega, dying. Turning, she sees her horse drinking from the fatal spring. The faithful animal falls beside her and, bereft of friends and reason, the wretched girl leans down, and smiling at the green water, drinks.