- Jim Blazes falls in love with Amy Van Clayton when he meets her in a lumber camp. In New York, Amy discovers that her brother is in danger of being jailed for stealing from Jim, who is his boss. To protect her brother, Amy marries Jim, but he returns to the lumber camp alone because he feels that Amy does not love him. Amy follows; later, when Jim's life is in danger, she finds that she really does love him.—AFI
- Jim Blazes owns a tract of timber in Northern Maine. Raised in the lumber country, he knows little of the outside world. French Annie runs the local dance hall. When Annie tells Jim she is surprised he is not married, he replies he's never met the woman fit to be the mother of his children. Annie is secretly in love with Jim, but turns her attention to Buck Ramsdell, a rival lumberman. Jim has the legal right, by his location along the river, to float his logs ahead of Ramsdell. Ramsdell plots to delay Jim's timber production so that Jim's priority rights will lapse. Amy Van Clayton, member of an aristocratic New York family, comes to the lumber country with her brother. When Amy almost drowns, Jim saves her life. Amy, believing that Jim is merely a lumberjack, offers him money. He refuses, but Amy tells him if he ever comes to New York, her father will be glad to help him. Jim has an office in New York, so after Amy departs, he decides to give the city end of his business more attention, with the hope of seeing Amy again. Amy's father dies, leaving her and her brother Fred penniless. The family lawyer gets them both positions - coincidentally - in the Blazes Lumber Company. So when Jim reaches New York, he discovers that Amy is now his secretary. After a short time, Jim works up the courage to propose to Amy, but she rejects his offer. She has learned that he has the reputation of getting what he wants, and she supposes he expects to get her love too - like a bandit. Fred steals some money from the office safe, goaded by a clerk in the office named Snapper Collins. Fred bets the money on a race. Jim discovers this and threatens to send Fred to jail. Amy offers to marry Jim if he will drop the charges. Jim agrees, and the two are wed, but he soon finds that Amy does not love him. Fred, unaware that Jim has married Amy, comes to Jim's house and accuses him of betraying his sister. Fred is about to shoot Jim when Amy intervenes. Jim decides to send Fred and Snapper to his lumber camp in order to make men out of them. Amy begins to see Jim in a new light. However, Jim has already decided he will go away and give Amy her freedom. Before leaving for his camp, he befriends Madge Dempsey, a stranded actress. He obtains work for her at French Annie's place. Arriving in Maine, he discovers that Buck Ramsdell has imported a gang of thugs, intent on putting Jim out of business. When Jim and his foreman, Henri, catch a man from the Ramsdell camp spying on their land, they know there is trouble ahead. Meanwhile, Amy writes to Jim and tells him she is coming to him. But the letter falls into the hands of French Annie before Jim receives it. She and Ramsdell plan to capture Amy and hold her until Jim permits the Ramsdell logs to be floated ahead of his own. Madge steals the letter, and enlists Snapper in a scheme to frustrate the plot. Madge heads out on horseback towards Ramsdell's mill, where she knows Ramsdell will take Amy. Snapper sets out to warn Jim. Jim encounters Ramsdell, and the rival lumber factions battle it out. Madge reaches the mill where Amy is being held. When the mill is surrounded, the two women escape through a log chute. Jim and Ramsdell, fighting on a bridge, break through the railing and continue their fight in the river. Jim has the upper hand, when one of Ramsdell's men fires at Jim and hits him. Amy's brother Fred kills the shooter, and with the assistance of Snapper, rescues Jim. Madge gets Amy to Jim's cabin. Jim is brought there, badly wounded. Amy, realizing she loves Jim more than ever, cries out to him that she has come back to him. Spring arrives, and with Ramsdell out of the way, Jim and Amy say goodbye to Madge, who is leaving on the stage. Madge's last wish to the couple is that they have "a lot of little lumber-Jacks and lumber-Jills." Snapper drives Madge to the station, but is it clear they will see each other again.
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