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- "Gul-Y-Hanar," the first of the thousand and one stories told by Scheherazade, concerns itself with this beautiful Princess, who through a series of mishaps, finds herself at the mercy of a heathen Sultan. The Sultan's son, who had been converted to the God Allah, falls in love with the Princess - and for this both are ordered to be executed when a miracle happens that saves them both from death. The lovers are separated, and only after many weird and exciting incidents are they reunited to live their lives in peace and happiness.
- The daughter of man who owns a South Seas pearl business falls in love with a wealthy traveler. Her father dies, leaving her the business. A greedy ship captain schemes to take the business from her.
- The daughter of a Kentucky colonel returns from her European finishing school to help prove his innocence as he is accused of killing a major with whom he had a feud over money.
- Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be registered the next day, offers a $50,000 reward for Tex's capture.
- Roderick Drew and his native hunters discover a map to a gold treasure in the hands of a skeleton, but they are being hunted by a man who shoots golden bullets.
- Captain Deane, Major Burleigh and their troops are attacked by a band of hostile Native Americans. Although the soldiers have been ordered to avoid a direct military confrontation, the vainglorious Major Burleigh insists on counterattacking. Deane refuses and Burleigh orders his arrest for insubordination and cowardice. Meanwhile, Deane and his men come to the defense of Elinor Folsom when another hostile band attacks her isolated ranch. After Deane is cleared of the charges, he defeats Burleigh in a fistfight, but Helen's father, John Folsom, convinces the major to not report the incident. Deane is then ordered to convey a military payroll, and Burleigh incites a group of Indians to intercept him. Elinor learns of the plot and rides to warn Deane. As they fight for their lives, the cavalry comes to the rescue. Burleigh is fatally shot and confesses that he, not Deane, has the payroll money. Later, a wedding ceremony is held for Elinor and Captain Deane.
- Heroic Officer 444 battles The Frog and his criminal gang for possession of Haverlyte, a powerful formula that, if it fell into the wrong hands, would give its owner enough power to control the world. Taking no chances, The Frog sends his chief henchwoman, a seductive vamp named The Vulture, to tempt Officer 444 to stray from his sworn duty to save the world from The Frog's nefarious plans.
- Lt. Tom Brennan is cashiered from the 7th Cavalry on two charges, both unjust: that of deserting his men in the face of a cruel Indian attack, and of entertaining a married woman in his quarters after hours. Tom wanders into the desert and is picked up half-dead by Yuba Bill, a prospector with whom he goes into partnership. The Indians go on the warpath, and Tom rides to the fort and warns the colonel. Tom's innocence is established by the confession of an enlisted man, and Tom is reinstated to the service with full honors, renewing his engagement with Margaret Cranston.
- The Hey Fellas gang builds a firehouse out of junkyard parts.
- Millowner Lem Bassett uses his foreman, Dave Trask, whose power among the people in the neighborhood is great, to obtain their land so that he can build a bigger dam for water power, flooding the lands above it. One of these people finds that Bassett has tricked him, and he demands recompense. When it is refused, Dave leads a group of men to dynamite the dam. In the path of the waters is Bassett's home, where Dave's crippled daughter has been taken so that a famous specialist retained by Tom Bassett, nephew of Lem (who loves Dave's sister), may operate. Dave saves the child and Tom, and Bassett agrees to surrender.
- A ranch foreman captures a notorious gang of gold thieves. He ties them up and leaves them for a pursuing posse while he goes out to find the gold they stole. When the posse arrives, the gang's leader convinces them that the foreman is actually the gold thief, and the posse sets out in pursuit of him.
- Professor Sturgess invents a miraculous engine which can draw unlimited power from the atoms of the air. When the professor is killed, his daughter and her fiance must fight to keep the secret of the power engine out of the hands of evil Weston Dore and his henchmen.
- Richard Dunbar gets into a fight with a crooked gambler and hits his opponent so hard that the latter falls, apparently dead. Dunbar takes flight and eventually drifts into a lumber camp in Oregon, where he falls in love with Betty Allison and arouses the wrath of one of Betty's suitors, the foreman of the camp. The foreman challenges Dunbar to a fight, but Dunbar remembers the consequences of his last fight and, instead of hitting back at the foreman, leaves the camp in disgrace. Dunbar later learns that the man he thought he had killed is still alive, and he returns to the lumber camp just in time to rescue Betty from death in a house on fire. Dunbar then beats the foreman in a fight and wins Betty for his wife.
- Richard Kingsley, son of a financier, trying to aid Marjorie Crenshaw and her sister during a raid on a New York roadhouse, is arrested. His father, enraged by the bad publicity, threatens to disinherit him if he doesn't go to Colorado in search of a mine. While traveling west, Richard meets a group of chorus girls and has his pocket picked by their manager. Without funds, he continues on foot; he meets Kinkaid, a bandit who has stolen $5,000 from Marjorie Crenshaw's father. Richard recognizes that Kinkaid's horse is the one stolen from his father and demands it be returned. Kinkaid gives him the horse but forces Richard to exchange clothes with him. Now mistaken for Kinkaid, Richard must flee from the posse but first uses altruistically the $5,000 he finds in Kinkaid's clothing. Kinkaid, missing the money, backtracks in search of Dick but instead meets Marjorie, whom he tries to seduce. Richard arrives in time to save her and takes her home, where her father believes him to be the bandit who robbed him. All complications are straightened out when Richard's father arrives and identifies his son; Dick discovers the mine; and Marjorie discovers that she loves Dick.
- Dave Mathews, the foreman at Helen McMaster's ranch, travels east to discover James Warner, the son of an old friend, in the act of stealing money from his father's safe to pay gambling debts. Dave offers to take the boy west in the hope of improving his character. When suspected cattle rustler Buck Conners abducts Helen, James overcomes his cowardice and rides to her rescue. James also saves Dave from Buck's gang, resulting in their capture. Dave and Helen marry, and James becomes the new ranch foreman.
- Dick MacLean, a member of the Northwest Mounted Police, is mortally wounded and, with his dying breath, asks Larry McGee, a friend and fellow Mountie, to take care of Haida, an Indian girl who is bearing Dick's child. Finding her in childbirth, apparently on the point of death, Larry marries her to give the child a name. Haida recovers, however, and a sobered Larry rides after Black Logan, a notorious desperado. Larry brings Logan in, and Haida commits suicide, freeing Larry to marry Ruth MacLean, Dick's sister and his longtime sweetheart.
- A story told without titles: Simpson, a young inventor and sportsman, has nearly completed a new process of colored photography but lacks the necessary funds to complete it. Meeting his sweetheart, Elinor, he shows her a shotgun in the window of a hardware store, and is observed by the sheriff. The local bank is held up and the sheriff conceives the idea that the inventor is the bandit and gives chase. Simpson is warned by Elinor and they start for his laboratory with the sheriff in hot pursuit. On arriving they find a tramp has broken in and wrecked the plant but has accidentally completed the inventors process. They arrest him and discover he is the bank robber so all ends well.
- Davis French, a stalwart member of the Northwest Mounted Police, is ordered to the coast and is therefore unable to keep an appointment to be married with his sweetheart, Jean Dupres. He writes to her, but she does not receive the letter. She arrives at the appointed meeting place, alone and broke, and must accept the hospitality of a despicable character known only as the "Timber Wolf." When Timber Wolf attacks Jean in her cabin, Pierre Santoi, a fine fellow who has fallen in love with her, kills him with a knife. Pierre takes to the woods and meets up with Davis, an old friend, who reluctantly arrests him. Davis takes Pierre back to stand trial and is instrumental in obtaining a verdict of justifiable homicide; Davis is reunited with Jean, and Pierre sets out for the white frontier.