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- "Hurricane" Smith (Francis Ford), head of a steamship company, plots to keep the railroad from entering the city. The map of the proposed route becomes the instrument by which Blake (Frank Baker) and Florence (Florence Gilbert) are harassed by Smith's gang and repeatedly are rescued by "Pinto Pete," (Ashton Dearholt) who is adept with a whip.
- A naive young girl becomes infatuated with a crooked city slicker. A cowboy who loves her is determined to expose the crook for what he is.
- Yak arrives at the Gilmore ranch where rustling has occurred. Gilmore blames a wild horse when it is actually his foreman Mays. After Yak catches and tames the wild horse, Mays gets Yak out of the way by having him arrested for murder. Mays and his men can now make one last raid.
- A miner has struck it rich and gives some ore to cowhand Jess Dean to take to his granddaughter. But Horse Williams has the miner shot and uses the ore found on Jess to accuse him of the murder. Jess escapes from the mob of townspeople who later learn that the body of the supposedly dead miner has mysteriously disappeared.
- Drew Halliday, stage driver, is abashed when the little girl he admires returns from finishing school a beautiful young woman. When a sporty gambler and saloon keeper forces his attentions on the young lady, Drew comes to her defense. Because of his courageous handling of the gambler, Drew is elected sheriff. He acquires more responsibility when he takes Hela for his wife after her father dies. Soon afterward her brother is jailed for a murder that the gambler committed. The gambler again makes advances toward Hela: this time he is caught by his own girl, who in a rage shoots him. Hela is accused of the killing; Drew takes the blame; but when the woman confesses all, the innocent are freed.
- A crazed scientist calling himself The Voice from the Sky broadcasts his voice all across the globe, and threatens to suspend all energy in the earth's atmosphere and turn day into night unless the world immediately destroys all arms and vehicles of warfare. U. S. Secret Service agent Jack Deering is sent to Arizona to investigate, where he meets the scientist's daughter Jean. The ten-episode battle then ensues between Deering, a spy for the Russian government, an agent from Scotland Yard, and a mysterious cloaked "Man from Nowhere," who pursue each other from Canada to California in the attempt to acquire the "secret of the air."
- Young society girl Joyce Lyndon is engaged to energetic Grant Garrison, who lures the judge's daughter to a roadhouse for the night and meets his death at the hands of an abandoned wife. Joyce escapes in fright and meets Martin Antrim, who protects her in exchange for an introduction to her circle of friends. Antrim elicits a confession from Garrison's widow, and Joyce recovers an incriminating handbag from the innkeepers when they attempt to blackmail her.
- Jack Stokes, a young ranch man, falls in love with Elizabeth Welsh, the daughter of an old miner who owns land rich in gold. Elizabeth tires of ranch life and goes east to finish her education. Speculator Blane Flint recognizes the value of the Welsh properties and endeavors to marry Phoebe, Elizabeth's younger sister. After Jack rescues Phoebe from Blane's carefully laid plans, the speculator goes east in search of Elizabeth, who has become indifferent to Jack. Unaware of Blane's true character, Elizabeth accepts his marriage proposal. Although Jack is saddened by the news of their marriage, he discovers a growing attraction between himself and Phoebe. In the meantime, Blane plots with Hamby, a crooked attorney, to steal the mineral rights to Welsh's land. Jack thwarts the scheme, leading to Blane's arrest. He and Phoebe marry, and the sisters are reconciled.
- Happy Hanes, a ranch hand, comes between a crooked foreman and the new ranch owner Frances Powell. The foreman and his "half-breed" accomplice Cholo kidnap Frances.
- 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.
- Carmen, a prospector's wife, tires of living in the wilderness and, disobeying her husband, attends a dance, where she meets up with slick gambler Flash Kirby. Her husband's friend Bill Carson rescues her from Kirby's advances, but then he and Carmen form an attachment. Complications ensue.
- A cowboy sets out to prevent a rancher's beautiful daughter from marrying a villain and losing the ranch.
- Sheriff Jefferson Mosby, of the Kentucky Mosbys, is assigned by the district inspector of Arid, a small town in Nevada, to investigate a dangerous region known as Cactus Flats, which is infested by outlaws bent on driving out the homesteaders. In Cactus Flats, he meets Molly Miller and Danny Duggan, the last of the homesteaders, and learns of the cruel way Buck Connor, the mayor, orders them to vacate every now and then. By means of disguise, Mosby infiltrates Connor's gang and catches Connor with the goods; then, with the aid of Molly and Danny, he arrests the culprits. In the end, in spite of the inspector's advice not to trust a woman, he decides to take orders from Molly for the rest of his life.
- Richard Stanton, with a map to a hidden treasure, arrives with his servant Tim. Others are also looking for it and plan to kill the two. The ranch is supposedly haunted so Richard and Tim team up with Elsa and dress as ghosts to scare away the bad guys.
- A story of the West in the days when the sheriff was more powerful than the mayor or governor. It tells of the sacrifices made by a sister for a brother and the virile, big-hearted nature of a stage-driver who is made sheriff and solves a mystery that hangs over the lives of two innocent people.
- Horses are being rustled by outlaws known as the Hell Hounds. When the Sheriff is killed, his Deputy Yak takes over the search for the rustlers. John Lawson says Yak cannot marry his daughter until the murderer of the Sheriff is caught. But unknown to Lawson, the murderer is his own son.
- Clay Norton and Duke Fuller are partners in a mining venture and have several claims, none of which have proved particularly successfully but do have promise. They are both in love with Agnes, and Clay wins her hand. While he is away in a nearby town to buy a wedding ring, Jim Butts, who has the territory's best mine, dies and Duke jumps his claim and sells it for $10,000, and the widow Butts is left penniless. When Clay, on his return, finds out what Duke has done, he demands his partnership share of $5,000 and tells Duke that they should see the widow and give her the money to go East so she will cause them no trouble. They visit her together and Clay tells her he will give her $5,000 and forces Duke to do the same. Overcome with the shock of the good fortune, the widow faints, and Duke, furious at being tricked, rushes from the cabin and meets Agnes, who is on her way to meet Clay. He takes her to the door of the cabin where she sees the widow Butts in the arms of her sweetheart. Misunderstanding the situation and being told by Duke that Clay is unfaithful to her, she breaks off their engagement.
- In order to catch a gambler wanted for murder, a sheriff poses as an outlaw and works his way into a bandit gang, and soon discovers that the man he's looking for is a member of the gang. When he also discovers that the killer's wife is being badly abused by him, the sheriff determines to help her escape but fears that his real identity may be exposed.
- Coming into the town of Sun-Dog, the stage is held up, and Dave Richards and his pal, Silent Slade, find a note in the empty coach that implicates Scott Martin, the driver. Richards loves Jean, Martin's daughter, and, suspecting a frame up, he decides not to report his discovery to the sheriff. The gang's leader, Zell Mohr, later throws suspicion on Richards, and when things get too hot for him, he escapes into the hills. Meanwhile, Jean wrings the truth from her father: the note was left by the gang to repay Martin for refusing to join in with them; Jean, Richards, and Slade capture the gang, and the sheriff takes them off to jail while Richards takes Jean in his arms.
- Willis, the foreman of the Saunders ranch, derisively bets Dick Meadows that he cannot ride the wild horse, Killer. Dick succeeds in staying on the bronc and wins a considerable sum from Willis, in whose company he sets out for the town bank. Randall, a bandit hired by Willis, waylays them, but Dick routs him. Willis later lures Betty to Randall's home, holds her there against her will, and sends the bandit for a minister. Betty sends a message to Dick by means of her trained horse, and Dick rescues her, thrashing Willis while she clouts Randall with a chair. The minister arrives, and Dick whispers to him that he will probably need his services in the near future.
- Jack Stokes is Sheriff Lamar's right-hand man. Mrs. Lamar receives a threatening letter from a gambler. He threatens to expose her former life if she does not persuade the Sheriff to give him free play. Jack overhears the conversation. In the fight which follows, the gambler is accidentally killed. His gang tries to lynch Jack. He is released from prison by Mrs. Lamar, and escapes. Tom Stone and Jim Bland are outlaws. Tom receives a letter from his sister informing him of her journey west. They resolve to hold up the "Oasis," a dance hall and saloon, and with the money send the girl East again. The robbery is easily accomplished, but Bland is fatally wounded. He dies, and Tom puts his own name on the grave's crosspiece, thus hoping to throw the posse oft his trail. Jack sees the grave and conceives the same idea. He places his name on the crosspiece. In leaving he sees Tom's coat and finds Beulah's picture and the swag. He goes to the "Oasis" and there rescues Beulah from the life of a dance hall girl, claiming she is his sister. Through unforeseen circumstances Jack is accused of robbing the "Oasis." He is about to be hung but escapes. At a deserted cabin he finds the real Tom, who has been badly wounded while holding up a stage coach. The sheriffs from the two towns arrive. Sheriff Lamar clears Jack, and Beulah decides that she would rather have Jack as husband than brother.