- To escape the pain of a failed love affair, Jim goes to Wolfville, a rough Western town populated by gamblers and Indians. Shortly after he meets Cynthia, a sweet-natured local girl, Ellen, his former lover, arrives from the East and flirts with an Indian to make him jealous. The Indian, who takes Ellen's attentions seriously, sends her some ponies, which she accepts unwittingly as a gift. When she discovers that by Indian custom her acceptance amounts to a marriage agreement, she turns to Jim, promising to marry him in exchange for a way out. Jim kills the Indian in a duel, but Ellen reneges on the deal and jilts him once again. In the gambling saloon, "Smiling Jack" Douglas plots to kill Jim, but Cynthia intercedes by replacing his gun's bullets with blanks. To "Smiling Jack's" surprise, Jim resists his shots and charges him, eventually driving him from the town. His courage proven, the tenderfoot wins the heart and hand of Cynthia.
- "The Tenderfoot," from a novel by the same name, is the story of the young man who came west because the eastern girl would not return his love. She also comes west, and he shows his worth by saving her life and her reputation, but she is incapable of appreciating his honest devotion. Meantime a true western girl has come into his life. He admires her and she secretly loves him. The eastern girl, to arouse the jealousy of the Tenderfoot, invites the attentions of a young Indian brave, and he, scheming to win, sends ponies to the white folks' camp. Innocent of the Indian custom she accepts them, and thus is bound to marry the redman. She appeals to the Tenderfoot to save her, promising to marry him if he will. The Tenderfoot kills the Indian in a rifle duel only to be again put aside by the girl. In Wolfville's saloon the bad man sits with the western girl, waiting for the Tenderfoot to come in so he can kill him. Pretending an affection for the bad man, the western girl plies him with liquor and exchanges the cartridges in his revolver for harmless charges. Knowing nothing of this, the Tenderfoot enters, and unscathed by the first shot, closes in on the bad man and drives him from town. As the western girl is confiding to the dazed Tenderfoot what she did because she loved him, her rival is riding away from Wolfville into the east.
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