A Western picture which has some merit as depicting scenes which might actually have occurred there under some conditions, but marred by the defect of showing desperadoes kidnapping a girl. This disagreeable scene is not often placed in motion pictures now, and the sooner it is left out entirely the better it will be for the business. The average audience doesn't care for the production of such primitive features of swashbuckling customs and would much prefer to have this portion of any drama suggested rather than openly illustrated. Another feature of this film will not please a good many. It represents a white girl and an Indian falling in love with each other. While such a thing is possible, and undoubtedly has been done many times, still there is a feeling of disgust which cannot be overcome when this sort of thing is depicted as plainly as it is here, even to the point where the girl decides to run away and join her Indian lover. The fact that the girl's father shows the Indian from the house rather hurriedly at the muzzle of a gun is, in a way, a modifier of the tense situation which develops, but it will be admitted by most who see the film that it is not the sort that pleases the average audience. - The Moving Picture World, March 23, 1911
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