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- Tex Henderson, a Western woman, excels at horse riding to the extent that the cowboy she loves rejects her as being too mannish. When the government opens up land for settlement, Tex joins the land rush, and her expert quick riding outwits others trying to stop her. She makes her land stake, after which the cowboy changes his mind and marries her.
- Angel City is a misnomer. A gang of outlaws is largely in control and when Isabelle Bruner's father is mysteriously killed the sheriff decides to get busy. Frank Bartlett, an idler who could afford to be idle, appeared in town and took Isabelle to the country ball. In search of a new thrill, he decides to aid the sheriff, and the first thing he does is to scare away the would-be robbers of the stage coach. This is only the beginning of a dramatic career which ends in his bringing home the honors, and winning the girl.
- The heroine of "The She Wolf" walks into "The Last Hope" saloon in "Mad Dog" one night, and discovers the Chinese owner and a crooked sheriff cheating a stranger at a game of cards. Drawing her shooting irons she starts to take a hand in the game herself. During the fighting that follows, the stranger is wounded, and the heroine carries him off to her shack and takes care of him. Several days later, the sheriff, who is the head of a band of outlaws, robs the mail coach and leaves a number of letters scattered on the road. The two-gun young woman picks up one of the letters and learns that it was written by Sallie Bigby to her sweetheart, John Williams. It tells him that Sallie's father is in the power of the Chinese saloon keeper, and that she will be compelled to marry him unless she is rescued. "The She Wolf" goes to the place, starts a lively scrap for the second time, and carries Sallie off to her cabin. Here matters are arranged properly. Sallie and her sweetheart meet and the stranger lets it be known that he intends to make the girl who nursed him back to health his wife.
- When retired merchant J. T. Manly is murdered, his son James, with whom he had quarreled, is arrested and finally convicted through the testimony of Manly's valet Aguinaldo. Shortly before James's execution, Sidney Holmes reveals to retired criminologist Martin Cross that on the night of the murder, he saw Aguinaldo commit the crime through the bedroom window of his friend Robert West's wife Helen. Although his presence in Helen's room was innocent, he refuses to make a public statement that might besmirch her honor. With this knowledge, Cross hires a fake spiritualist to terrorize Aguinaldo with contrivances of ghosts, skeletons and mysterious faces. The ruse is successful, and Aguinaldo confesses that he killed Manly to avenge his mother, whom the merchant had wed and later abandoned. Robert dies, leaving Helen free to marry Sidney.
- A young Westerner on the Mexican border is prevented from being made sheriff by a cunning Mexican, Onate, who forges the papers and makes himself sheriff. He immediately starts proceedings against the real sheriff and forces him to kill a man in his own defense. The Westerner escapes and is befriended by a lonely girl, Jackie, whom everyone shuns because of a belief that she brings bad luck. He is pursued and imprisoned by Onate's men, but Jackie obtains a pardon from the governor and Onate's faithful servant, the Indian, turns traitor for the sake of his American friend. Onate is punished, the sheriff's commission is restored to the right man, and Jackie finds that her curse has finally been removed.
- Young Norman Russell finds a purse dropped by a young woman who was horseback-riding. When he finds that she has left for Arizona, he decides to go there to return her purse to her. A policeman sees him and thinks that he's a criminal, and notifies the sheriff of Lone Rock, Arizona, where Norman is headed. The sheriff mistakenly thinks that Norman has a stolen diamond necklace in the purse, and Norman doesn't return it for fear he'll be arrested. Soon Norman finds himself involved with a gang of crooks who frame him for a murder.
- The foreman of a cattle-ranch located on the Texas-Mexico border is the leader of a gang of alien-smugglers bringing Chinese immigrants illegally into the United States. An under-cover Texas Ranger is sent to investigate.
- Marshall Strong and John Moore, partners in a western gold mine, both fall in love with schoolteacher Constance Harvey, but she marries Moore, even though she is attracted to the shy Strong, because Moore convinces her that Strong loves someone else. After they strike ore, Moore is killed in a barroom brawl and Strong is accused of murder. He hides out and sends for Constance, but when Lilas Niles, a squatter's daughter who wants Strong's money, deceitfully tells him that Constance is sending the police, Strong leaves, embittered, and marries Lilas. Years later, Strong, now known as Mark Smith, is a wealthy mine owner. Constance lives with her son David who loves Strong's daughter Nancy and works in Strong's mine. After Strong refuses demands for safety precautions, an explosion traps David underground. When Strong discovers that David is Constance's son, he rushes into the burning mine to save him. Strong then promises safer conditions, and David marries Nancy.
- Despite Stanley's explanation that a fortune awaits Frayne, rancher Wilder Armstrong refuses to reveal his friend's whereabouts. Shortly thereafter, Edith Kilgallen, also an heir to the fortune, seeks Frayne; and Armstrong decides that he should find Frayne, who has disappeared. Stanley arrives first and tries to trap Edith, but Armstrong comes to the rescue. Explanations follow: Stanley's purpose was to frame Frayne for a crime, thus disqualifying him from the inheritance. "Frayne" is actually Frayne's half brother, who, accused of a crime, was sent from his uncle's home, then later killed Frayne in self-defense and assumed his identity. Edith and Wilder are united.
- Because both his father and grandfather died of alcoholism, the inhabitants of Denny Bolton's small home town in upstate New York consider him, too, a hopeless drunkard. Swayed by the suggestion that he has inherited a craving for liquor, Denny fights to abstain from it, aided only by the woman who loves him, Dryad Anderson. One night, however, Denny is kicked by a horse, and when Dryad sees him unconscious on the floor, she believes the worst and abandons him. Angered, Denny moves to New York City and applies for a job as a fighter in Flash Hogarty's gymnasium. In the ring, Denny stands up to a good fighter named Sutton, which so impresses Flash that he trains Denny to face the lightweight champion, Jed the Red. An encouraging note from Dryad delivered to Denny during the big fight so inspires him that he defeats Jed and returns home triumphant.
- Jack Bray is a wanderer in the wilderness of a Western town, governed principally by a band known as the 'six-o-one,' a gang of masked riders. While their original purpose was protection and not disturbance, they are temporarily under the direction of a degenerate, Jim Dougherty, keeper of the saloon. Jim is the unwelcome suitor of Olga Swenson, the pianist in the cafe. Jack falls in love with her and incurs the enmity of Jim. Jack manages Battling Rush in a prize fight which is the event of the season, and in spite of his big opponent and the crooked work of the gang, he wins. Jack finds he has to fight for Olga, but he gets her.
- By underhand methods Al Hart gets possession of a rich mine belonging to Peggy O'Day and her father. Not knowing Hart to be a crook, Farnum accepts a position with him, and is sent to take charge of the mine. There he meets Peggy O'Day, and has a strenuous time attempting to control the tough gang which infests the vicinity. Finally he quits Hart's employ, and the latter, realizing the wrong he has done, gives Peggy a half interest in the mine, and she and Farnum end the film in each other's embrace.