The reviewer takes much pleasure in commending this breezy and prettily romantic Western story, for the artistic way in which it is conducted and acted, for its photography and the skillful choosing and handling of backgrounds and scenes, but especially for the restraint shown in developing the heroine's part in the picture. Miss Violet Mercereau takes the part of the sheriff's daughter, who gives Yellowstone Joe a drink of water, not because he's a bandit, but because he's a human being in trouble. When this bandit, later, has artfully escaped and joined his band, the sheriff's daughter, through a convincing train of happenings, falls into their hands. Joe renders her a very great service and is within an ace, that's almost literal, of being killed for it. He is saved from his own men by the sheriff's attack and the sheriff's daughter gives him her horse and revolver to escape. This will be commended by young people anyway. There's no kissing, no sloppy sentimentality and no passion. The producer has guarded the sheriff's daughter from doing anything that would lessen our admiration for her. Of course, in the fight between the posse and the fleeing bandits there's a good deal of shooting with much smoke and every shot a miss; but everybody in the picture keeps stepping lively and in the excitement this isn't noticed. One especially well planned scene is where the last two bandits are cornered and driven into the pool where they hope to hide in the rushes and sedge. The pursuers are too close upon them and they surrender. They come out stepping lively; it is just the kind of walk that was needed to give the proper illusion. Again, as a closing scene, in a beautiful perspective, well photographed, we see in the distance the posse with the two captured bandits. They plainly are wasting no time and there is something in it that makes us realize that there will be no monkey shines with that sheriff. There is no brutality and the men are plainly not going to be lynched. The scene shows a thoroughly American, business-like sheriff. Western pictures are not the highest form of art; but pictures like this are valuable, even necessary to people living sedentary lives or lives lacking in healthy excitement out of doors. It's a refreshing, good picture. - The Moving Picture World, September 2, 1911