- After his wife dies in childbirth, mountaineer Jim Grimsby names his newborn daughter Bill, and raises her as a boy. Remaining a boy in name only, however, Bill soon wants to style her hair and wear the latest fashions. She soon develops a crush on the new sheriff, Waldo Whittier. Appalled at the prospect of his "son" marrying Waldo, Jim decides to test the sheriff's grit, and so, believing that Waldo will be too frightened to come after him, he robs a casino. The sheriff does pursue, however, and, further impressing Jim, Bill pulls a rifle on Waldo to protect her father. Now certain of the sheriff's manliness, and convinced that his daughter has not forgotten how to act like a man, Jim returns the casino's money and agrees to let Bill and Waldo continue their courtship.—Pamela Short
- Jim Grimsby is a grouchy mountaineer of the gold-country. He married eighteen years previously for the purpose of rearing a son to whom he could teach his own peculiar ways, and who should become his boon companion. His wife died, leaving him with a girl-baby, which completely soured his spirits. He named the child Bill, and brought her up as a boy. Bill is beginning to be useful around the house, and tries her best to win her father's love. She is aroused one day to her charm through the illustrations of pretty girls in a magazine, and tries to arrange her hair according to the pictures. She also makes a crude skirt. Her father shows opposition, but her spirit of defiance, inherited from him, startles Grimsby, who desists in his attempt to cut off her hair. Grimsby reads in the Goldville Weekly Nugget of Waldo Whittier. the new sheriff from the east, and is seized with a desire to defy this college boy sheriff. Bill informs her father of her intention to go to the county seat to school, and asks for a bag of gold to buy proper clothes. Her father refuses, and accuses her of murdering her mother by being born. She swears never to speak to him again until he admits he is sorry, and they live in silence. Sheriff Whittier and a deputy ride past the cabin one day with a prisoner, and inquire the road to Goldville. Bill gives him the directions and tells him she wishes to go to school. He tells her she needs no money to go to school, but just some new clothes, and rides away. The next morning Bill starts for Goldville, but is intercepted by her father and returns to the hut. Grimsby prepares to go to Goldville, and Bill is afraid of the outcome. She vainly tries to prevent his going. He holds up the Casino dance hall and tacks a taunting threat to the sheriff on a pillar. Then he returns home. The sheriff returns to Goldville an hour later, hears of the hold-up and reads the notice, whereupon he sets out alone for the mountaineer's hut. Arriving, he enters Grimsby's room by the window and is confronted by Bill's leveled rifle. She has heard him coming and rushes in to save her father. Grimsby realizes his mistake, becomes reconciled to his daughter, and says he is sorry for his words regarding her mother. The sheriff takes Bill's bands, and as she looks into his eyes she becomes shy, and turns to her father, who says to the sheriff: "Young feller, you had better come around some other time when she ain't so dern excited. You can't tell which way she might jump jest now." Whittier departs and Grimsby caresses his daughter.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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