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- The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.
- Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.
- After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.
- Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
- A lone prospector comes to a cabin in the woods where he seeks food and lodging. There he meets a woman and her small daughter who put him up. Soon her father and brother, miners, arrive and are uneasy with the stranger. That night, they plan to rob him, but the woman alerts him and helps him fend off his attackers. This gesture moves the prospector to marry the woman.
- Broncho Billy comes between a Mexican thug and the young woman he is disturbing. The Mexican plots revenge for the insult and captures Billy, who has rescued a lost old man. The young woman discovers Billy being held prisoner and rides for help. The townsmen gallop toward Billy's rescue.
- Broncho Billy learns that part of his land is occupied by a "squatter." He orders the "squatter" evicted. The latter starts out to kill Billy, but Bessie, the "squatter's" daughter, prevents him. She pleads with Billy to permit them to remain on the land. Billy immediately falls in love with her. He returns with the girl to the "squatter's" house only to find that it has been burned by a posse sent to evict the father and daughter. Billy offers them his own home and then writes his mother he "has a hunch" he is going to be married soon.
- Broncho Billy saves an Indian from starvation. The Indian's intelligence is soon discovered by Broncho, who determines to make the red man a partner in his prospecting camp. An accident renders the prospector unconscious and the Indian hastens to the village for a doctor. The physician discovers that Broncho Billy's marred face is filled with dirt and gold. He tries to bribe the Indian. "Where did the explosion occur? See, Buck, I'm going to give you this money, tell me?" But the Indian is loyal. With the aid of two or three miners, the Indian is overpowered in Broncho Billy's shack, yet he will not tell them where the prospector has been working. Regaining consciousness, Broncho Billy enters the adjoining room in time to save the red man from the hands of the outraged miners, and the prospector voices his appreciation of the Indian's loyalty.
- Tired out, a ranger happens upon a cabin in the woods to ask for rest. He is met at the door by a pretty girl, and it is a case of love at first sight. The girl's father, leader of the lumber thieves, returns to find her before a small mirror arranging her hair, and upbraids her for her vanity. The ranger hears and, as the father is about to strike the girl, rushes out and hurls the man from her. When the ranger departs, the leader of the thieves follows with a rifle, and catching the ranger unawares, forces him to go to the thieves' rendezvous. The girl, who has seen, rushes to call the sheriff. Meanwhile the thieves draw lots to see who shall kill the ranger. It falls to the chief, who is about to shoot the ranger when the sheriff and his aides rush up and arrest the thieves. The ranger and the girl pledge their love.
- An old settler, with a beautiful daughter, received notice from a real estate agent that the mortgage on his property is due, but he is unable to pay. His daughter goes to the agent's office to ask for more time and the agent, smitten with her beauty, forces his attentions on her. She rejects him and he threatens to evict father and daughter. The owner advises the agent to foreclose if the settler refuses to pay, but to give him plenty of time if he is unable to. The agent, however, wires that the settler refuses to pay and proceeds to evict the pair. Meanwhile, the owner is advised by his physician to go to the country for his health. He arrives just in time to prevent the eviction and when the settler's daughter thanks him, it is a case of love at first sight.
- Drifting into Coyote County, Broncho Billy, an outlaw, sizes up the town saloon and gambling tables, finds nothing of interest and is only put on the alert when the incoming stage pulls up before the little general store and a strong-box of express money is carried in. Broncho watches keenly and returns to the saloon with a grim smile playing over his ruddy face. Next morning the storekeeper makes the startling discovery that the express guard is bound hand and foot and the money is gone. Meanwhile, at the edge of town, Broncho sorts over the stolen loot and rides on. A few hours later he comes upon a covered "prairie schooner" driven by Vedah Barclay, a pretty girl, and finds she is taking her sick mother back home to a little town across the desert. Broncho is able to aid Vedah in preparing a fire, and is making some coffee when he suddenly discovers the approach of the sheriff's posse. Vedah proves a spirited girl, hides Broncho in the wagon and sends the posse off on the wrong trail. Filled with gratitude, Broncho sees Vedah and her mother safely on their way. The next night Broncho dismounts before a small shack, and, receiving no answer to his knock, enters and finds Vedah and her mother unconscious on the floor from thirst and exhaustion. With but one thought of getting them to the town for medical treatment, Broncho dashes down to the trail, holds up the stage-coach, forces the passengers to climb out, mounts the seat, drives back to the shack, places the two unconscious women inside and starts furiously for town. Meanwhile, the posse come upon the stage driver, learn of the affair and start in pursuit. They overtake Broncho as he pulls up before the doctor's cottage and the sheriff mortally wounds him before he can explain. Finding the unconscious women in the coach the heroism of the outlaw is realized, but he dies in spite of the heroic efforts made to save him, while Vedah sobs out her grief over his body.
- Broncho Billy shoots an outlaw for making a disrespectful remark about his sweetheart. After the shooting he hastens to her home and tells her he has shot a man, but does not know who he is. Shortly after the remainder of the gang of outlaws arrive and, to learn the direction Broncho went, tell her it was her father who was shot. She then tells the direction of her sweetheart's flight. A few minutes later her father comes home and she realizes her mistake. She dashes after the gang and by a short cut heads them off, and tells them that Broncho is hiding in her home. They return, giving Broncho plenty of time to escape.
- A robber on the run from the law hides out in a house with a young girl and her grandfather, and treats them shabbily. He is later shot and badly wounded, but is rescued and cared for by an elderly, devoutly religious couple, and he begins to rethink the path his life has taken.
- The hotel proprietor is a grouchy piece of humanity, and when his daughter receives attentions from young men he becomes very irate. To cap the climax, his daughter falls in love and becomes engaged to a fine-looking young chap. When the father discovers this, he rushes out and shoots his daughter's sweetheart. The wounded man is carried into the hotel and when his fiancée attempts to dress the wound, she is stopped by her father. Broncho Billy, who happens to be a guest at the hotel, hears the disturbance, and while a friend is rushing for the doctor, he holds the angered parent at bay at the point of a gun. The father then is forced to consent to his daughter's engagement.
- Broncho works for a despicable land grabber who treats his help like a brute. The men finally plot to lynch the land grabber. Broncho races on his horse ahead of them and tells him of the plot. They barricade the doors, but the lynching party breaks them down and drag the two men away to string them up. But the girl has seen them and raced for the sheriff, who arrives just in time to prevent the lynching. The land grabber experiences a change of heart. He appoints Broncho foreman and the men have won their point and return to work satisfied, while Broncho falls in love with the girl who saved them.
- The wife and mother, in love with her local instructor, places her husband's revolver and a note to "get rid of him" in her lover's coat pocket. The professor telephones to the husband to meet him and is about to shoot when the husband, in a small table mirror, sees the action and wheels on the music teacher. In the struggle, the professor is killed, but before dying he gives the husband his wife's note. The husband is arrested for the murder, but for the sake of their little daughter, hides the note in a secret drawer of his desk and keeps silent about his wife's connection with the slaying. Fifteen years later he is pardoned, but his wife orders him from the old home. He gets the note and when he shows it to the wife, she craves his forgiveness. The daughter, now grown up, proves the means of a reconciliation and happy family reunion.
- Broncho Billy, owner of a saloon in Big Horn City, is trusted implicitly by the miners in the surrounding territory. Several of them have gathered at the bar, when Broncho Billy receives a note, stating that the stage-coach will not stop at Big Horn until the following day. The men request Broncho Billy to keep their gold until the coach arrives. Broncho Billy locks the gold in an iron chest, and asks the men if they will keep the key. They tell him no, that it would probably be safer with him. Broncho Billy retires with his clothes on, to be able to protect the gold if necessary. During the night Broncho Billy walks in his sleep. He takes the gold from the chest, carries it under a nearby house, where he places it in a barrel. He then returns to his bunk, where he sleeps the remainder of the night. The next morning he is dumbfounded when he discovers the loss. He informs the sheriff, who suggests locking him in a cell to prevent the men from lynching him. That night, the men break into the jail, overpower the sheriff, and are about to make quick work of Broncho Billy, when they discover him walking around in the cell asleep. They open the door and allow him to go out. Broncho Billy retraces his steps of the night previous, gets the gold and returns it to the chest, goes quietly to his bunk, where he continues to sleep. The men, overjoyed at the return of the gold, and discovering their terrible mistake in believing that Broncho Billy had stolen it, help themselves to a good drink at the bar.
- Marguerite becomes weary as the hours and the Overland Limited roll on. Her trip from New York to the far west was a tedious one, and it is with a sigh of relief that she steps from the observation platform to pluck some flowers. The train had stopped for water. Marguerite wanders into the woods and when she returns, discovers that the train had pulled off. She is alone in a new country, without friends or funds. That evening she wanders into a deserted cabin and throws herself on a cot for a rest. In the meantime, her father has discovered her absence, gets off the train at the next station and, with the aid of the sheriff and his posse, they form a searching party. Broncho Billy and his pal, Lee, return to the cabin, and it is with difficulty that the former prevents the sleeping girl from being disturbed. Her father later finds her, thanks Broncho Billy for the protection and kindness extended to his daughter and continues on his journey, taking Marguerite with him. In the many long days and nights following, Broncho dreams of the little Red Riding Hood who had taken possession of his cabin.
- Broncho Billy is seen leaving his humble home in the east to make his fortune in the far west. He kisses his mother fondly goodbye. Broncho Billy, a tenderfoot at this time, arrives in the west, goes to the hotel and engages a room. After placing his belongings in his room he saunters about the hotel lobby. Al Wilkes, a rough western cowpuncher, imagining he can make this unknown man of the east dance, plays a lively tune around his feet with a forty -four caliber revolver. Broncho Billy gives Wilkes a look, and calmly leaves the room. Broncho then strolls into the gambling house and refuses to take a hand in the game. He then walks into the barroom and orders a glass of soda. Wilkes enters the saloon, and seeing Broncho Billy drinking the nearest thing to water, makes fun of him. This grates on the young easterner's nerves. Wilkes calls him a "Mollycoddle," or something to that effect. Broncho suggests a fight to take place right then and there. Broncho is informed by the cowpunchers who have congregated, that they are not accustomed to using fists out west, that if he wants to fight he will have to practice shooting with a gun. Broncho immediately purchases a beautiful horse pistol. Filling his pockets with ammunition, and taking his new treasure, Broncho puts up a bottle on a rock in the road and fires several shots at it. None of them hit the mark. A larger bottle is then shot at without effect. Several months later, Broncho Billy is seen in a clearing in the woods with six beer bottles lined up before him. He shoots at them and hits his mark every time. A more difficult stunt is performed by his placing six playing cards on a table, some distance from him. Broncho Billy shoots at these cards and punctures each one of them. Now, Broncho Billy says, "Where is this fellow Wilkes?" Wilkes has had a grudge against Broncho Billy since the first meeting, and has waited for an opportunity to shoot him. Broncho Billy sees the cowpuncher approach. Wilkes pulls his gun, but is not quick enough, and Broncho Billy shoots him in the arm. Fearing that the boys will lynch him, he rides on horseback to the sheriff's office, where he explains what has occurred. The sheriff gives Broncho Billy a revolver and locks him in a cell. The boys, hearing what has happened to Wilkes, go to the sheriff's office, break the door in, and are about to capture Broncho, when Wilkes arrives and explain to his fellow cowpunchers that he was wrong. Broncho Billy and Wilkes shake hands and everything ends in a peaceful manner.
- A mother's heart always goes out to her wayward son. Jim Barton caused his mother constant worry, and one night his father caught him in the act of tampering with the family strong box. Jim is severely admonished and that night runs away, leaving a note to his mother to the effect that he will never return. The parents are broken-hearted, but are consoled by their other son, who is a good, honest lad. Years later we see Jim's brother, now sheriff, searching, for two outlaws, who are terrorizing the whole countryside by their daring deeds. The outlaws inhabit an abandoned hut, hidden from sight by shrubbery. Jim saves a young girl from the insults of his partner, which causes enmity between the two outlaws. Desiring revenge, Jim's pal informs the sheriff of his whereabouts. Face to face with the fact that the outlaw is his long-lost brother, the sheriff is about to let him escape, but Jim will not allow him to sacrifice himself, and ends his own life just as the posse break in the door.
- One night all the boys of the Seven Up Ranch are invited to the house to meet Bud Simpson's niece from Lizardhead. After hours of brushing up his dusty best clothes, Alkali Ike finally rigs himself out and, with a freshly washed rubber collar roped about his neck, chases into the ranch house where he finds the lovely Sophie seated at the organ, surrounded by the boys, who are industriously screeching their heads off in an endeavor to sing. Alkali Ike vainly attempts to elbow his way through and get a sight of the fair Sophie, but in vain, and is finally thrown out of the house by the boys. But his wooing is not in vain, and the next morning a motorcyclist arrives at the ranch and stops for a while. Alkali immediately sees possibilities in the machine, buys it outright, and invites Sophie to take a spin with him along the trail. She delightedly agrees, and then the fun begins. Of course Alkali loses control of the mechanism and the wildest of rides ensues. Finally the machine lands in the creek and there we leave Alkali in the hands of the enraged Sophie, who does things good and plenty to him.
- Gilbert Sterling had never wanted for anything. He had been given plenty of money to do with as he pleased, and it was perhaps the fault of his parents that he became worthless, good-for-nothing. The firm of John Sterling and Sons bad been organized by his father, and. when Gilbert was old enough, he took active part in the management. Gilbert's love for the gay life led him away from his duties, and it was nothing unusual for him to spend six nights out of the week with questionable company. Early one morning, intoxicated, Gilbert finds his way to his home. His father reprimands him and finally puts him out of the house, telling him "never to return." Ralph, Gilbert's brother, is engaged to a society belle by the name of Gertrude Chapin, and the end of the second reel shows the two families making arrangements for the wedding. Years later, we see Gilbert a ragged, good-for-nothing tramp in the far west. His happy-go-lucky ways and mannerisms are appreciated by the men in the small town, who pay little attention to him, except for contributing the "makings" or an occasional twenty-five-cent piece. In the meantime, Ralph has engaged in a crooked deal. His father becomes furious and will not reconcile himself to the commercial transactions. The son leaves his office, swearing that he is through with the firm. Sterling and Son, forever. He associates himself with another company and forces his father to the wall, breaking him. The old clerk, who had befriended Gilbert many times, pleads with Ralph to help his father, but for his trouble he is requested to leave the office. Gilbert befriends an Indian who is taken with smallpox, and as a reward, Is left a deed for the Lone Star Mine. He prospers, and after months of labor, becomes very wealthy. His father and mother, in the city, now destitute, are taken to the poorhouse, Ralph having refused to help them in any way. A letter from the east informs Gilbert of his parents' whereabouts, and he hastens to them, restoring them to their old home. Ralph tries to corner the wheat market and Gilbert gets the tip and "breaks" him, and the pretty society butterfly Ralph had married deserts him, now that he is penniless. The worthless son finally saves the life of his brother, and a happy ending takes place, the family now reunited and the old firm name "Sterling and Sons" re-established.
- Broncho Billy, while in a dance hall, goes to the assistance of the girl who is playing the piano, when a patron tries to force her to drink. As a result, the girl loses her position. A few days later Broncho Billy finds her wandering about the streets. She tells him the sad story of her life, and how through her innocence, she was led into a shameless life. Broncho Billy falls deeply in love with her, and shortly after asks her to become his wife. He is accepted.
- A husband, desperate to save his sick wife, steals two horses. Their young daughter tries to protect her father when Bronco Billy comes to search their house.
- When Charlie awakens in the modern world, he has to deal with the things he hates most: Vibrant colors and sounds. He concocts various devices to shield himself - which only leads to further alienation. What he needs is a bit of magic.
- This is a story of a wealthy young man, accustomed to the gaieties of café and club life who falls in love with and marries a poor girl, who is infatuated with him. After marriage, however, the young man fails to give up his fast friends and continues to live his gay life. The wife is unhappy and one night when her husband returns home intoxicated, she packs her grip and quits the house. She goes to a railroad station and while waiting for a train, faints. She is taken to the station hospital. The husband awakens and finds his wife gone. He rushes to the police station, where he learns that she is in the hospital. Hurrying to her bedside he clasps her in his arms and promises never to drink again.
- Alkali Ike eludes his wife and attends a performance at the Snakeville Opera House, where Prof. Hippy is demonstrating his wonderful hypnotic art. Alkali Ike is finally persuaded to go up on the stage. The professor hypnotizes him. The clever and eccentric situation that derive from Alkali being hypnotized, are excruciatingly funny. Mrs. Alkali is finally called in to overcome the hypnotist's influence over her husband, and believe me, she does.
- A cowboy travels East to settle an old score. He finds the man he's been looking for, but his beautiful daughter pleads for her father's life.
- Peter Fuss and Jack Henry, being invited to sit in a game of poker, write fake telegrams to their wives telling them they have been called out of the city. The undertaker is one of the members of the party and loses all his money. In the midst of the game the constable knocks at the door. All except Fuss and Henry leap out of the window. They climb up a chimney and flee to the undertaker's house, where, exhausted, they drop asleep in his bed. In the meantime the two wives have heard their husbands were killed in a wreck. They go to the undertaker's shop and he shows them their sleeping husbands all begrimed from their trip through the chimney. The wives pay the undertaker to care for the bodies. When the husbands return home they find crepe on their doors. They vow never to play again.
- Sophie Clutts, driving into town with Hiram, her irascible father, sets two hearts pumping. Mustang Pete makes a date with Sophie and goes to Slippery Slim's tailor shop to have his trousers pressed. While he is sitting behind the screen, Sophie comes to the shop to be measured for a dress and Slim forgets all about Mustang and his trousers. He leaves a hot iron on them and burns the most important part out of them. Then Slippery Slim takes Sophie out for a drive. Pete borrows Slim's trousers and starts in pursuit. He comes across them spooning and tells Sophie's father. Hiram gets busy and chases Slim away, but when Slim tries to get into the wagon, the horse runs out of the shafts. Pete takes Slim's place. Hiram chases him away and Pete hits him on the head with a brick. When last seen, Slim is pulling his wagon down the road and Mustang is a passenger.
- Broncho Billy had promised Marguerite that he would never drink again. She agreed to marry him. That afternoon, one of the village gossips sees Marguerite with Boy Turner, a surveyor, and hastens to inform Broncho of it. Marguerite's sweetheart threatens to kill the surveyor, but finally suggests a duel to be fought ten minutes later. Marguerite hears of it, hastens to the minister's home, where she gets him and takes him to Kelly's saloon. The minister straightens out the tangle by marrying Marguerite to the jealous Broncho.
- Reno Bill, a desperado, discovers the sheriff and the express agent in the act of holding up the stage. The next day Reno Bill is captured by Fred Church and his young assistant, when they find him annoying a pretty young girl. They take him to jail and when the bandit sees the sheriff and agent he contemptuously tells Church of their treachery. Fred locks the three in jail together and place his assistant on guard, while he goes out to visit with the girl.
- Sophie Pain, the lady doctor, hangs out her sign in Snakeville and naturally creates quite a stir among the male population. Mustang Pete suddenly discovers and pretends he is ill and calls on the "hen medic." Bloggie, jealous, sends him a note that his wife wants him, and himself acquires a sudden ailment. Pete, finding he was fooled, tells Bloggie's wife her husband is making love to the lady doctor, and she rushes to her office. Bloggie escapes and locks his wife, Pete, the hen medic, and Slippery Slim, who was hired as office boy, in the office. Then he climbs to the roof and covers up the chimney. Suffocated by the smoke, the locked in Bloggie's victims telephone for the constable who rushes to the scene with a rifle. He pokes it through the window and Pete extracts the shell and places it in the stove. The place is blown up and Bloggie falls into a watering trough, where the constable arrests him. The hen medic, Pete, Bloggie's wife and Slim struggle out from under the wreckage.
- Old Harry Todd and his daughter, Marguerite, are in the west prospecting for gold. They meet Broncho Billy, who takes dinner with them and later continues on his way. As he is riding across the plains thinking of Marguerite, he happens to see an Indian at the top of a hill, looking down upon the prospector and his daughter. Broncho Billy warns Todd and his daughter and the settler hastens to the fort to notify the soldiers that the Indians are up to trouble. During Todd's absence, the Indians close in about Broncho and Marguerite, who have taken refuge in an abandoned hut. The redskins set the shack ablaze and in the ensuing conflict Broncho Billy is wounded. The soldiers arrive in time to save the two from the bands of the Indians, which brings about a very happy ending.
- An unrepentant crook enters a dance hall and gets in a fight over a girl. As he, unknowingly, breaks into her house, another bloody mess stains the residence's thick carpets. Can a simple act of kindness pave the way for his regeneration?
- A reward of $500 is offered for the capture of Broncho Billy, a desperate outlaw. One day, while hiding near the home of a rancher, Broncho sees a little girl burying her broken doll. Before she completes the ceremony, her mother comes out and takes her into the house. That evening after she has been put to bed, the little girl steals out to finish burying her doll. She falls over a ledge, and Broncho, who is sleeping nearby, is awakened. He picks her up unconscious. Upon taking her home the mother offers him a cot to sleep on. While Broncho sleeps the rancher comes home and recognizes him. He is intent upon getting the $500 reward, but his wife protects the rescuer of her child and Broncho is allowed to escape.
- Broncho Billy, a cowpuncher, is elected to the office of deputy. The sheriff is in love with Gertrude Scott and fears that his deputy is smitten with her. An outlaw has been terrorizing the town and the sheriff determines to capture him. He meets the outlaw in the woods, gives him money and promises him his release the following day if he will give himself up. The sheriff is proclaimed a hero. That night the outlaw escapes and the deputy captures him. The bandit squeals; the sheriff is ousted and Broncho Billy not only wins the office but the love of the pretty Gertrude.
- Two cabin stewards on a ship are mistaken for noblemen by a delegation of society women who have come to the boat to meet a Count and his friend.
- For some unknown reason or other, Alkali Ike cannot get along with his wife. To make matters worse, Mrs. Alkali invites her mother to visit her. Mother-in-law starts right in trying to reform her son-in-law. Alkali meets her at the railroad station, and instead of hiring a bus to carry up her baggage, she makes Alkali carry three or four hat boxes, a parrot, and a trunk, on his back to the house. Alkali enters the house, throws his hat on the table. Mother-in-law sees this, takes Alkali by the hair and gently but firmly requests him to hang his hat up where it belongs. That night Alkali Ike decides to visit his friends at the Green Turtle, but mother-in-law decides that he will remain right in the house and listen to her selections on the organ. Wifey assists her mother by rendering a solo. Alkali finally sneaks out. He purchases a book teaching hypnotism, and what he doesn't do to his mother-in-law is a caution. Wifey interferes just as her mother is about to make her exit from the town under a hypnotic spell, and the tables turn. Just see what happened to Alkali Ike.
- The accidental overturning of their "prairie schooner" kills a settler and his wife and leaves their little baby girl, Sunbeam, alone in the world. Discovered by Big Wolf, an Indian brave from a nearby tribe, Sunbeam is adopted and brought up as one of their number. Twelve years later Sunbeam is a beautiful girl and has been told of her parentage by Big Wolf who now loves her. One morning Bob Harris, a cowboy, and his pal are given a drink of water by Sunbeam. Mutual love springs up between she and Harris and she tells him she is not an Indian, but loves them for their goodness. Hiding in the rocks Big Wolf tries to kill the cowboy, but the bullet passes through his hat and he rides on unharmed. Filled with hatred and jealousy Big Wolf resolves that if he cannot have Sunbeam no one else shall win her. Making her a captive in her wigwam that night he ties her to the back of a wild bronco and drives it out upon the plains. In the early gray of morning Bob and his pal are herding the cattle when Bob catches sight of the girl on the bronco's back. Hastening to the corral he secures his lariat and informs the boys who dash out to the rescue. Realizing his plan has failed Big Wolf, who has been hiding nearby, attempts to stab Bob in the back, but is shot dead by one of the cowboys who catches sight of him in time. The bronco is captured and Sunbeam is carried back to the ranch unconscious by Bob. A few weeks later the assembled cowboys give Sunbeam and Harris a rousing send-off as they ride away to be married across the rolling hills.
- A detective from the east is sent west to locate a notorious bandit and train robber. In the costume of a western cowpuncher he reaches a small town. He is injured by falling over a precipice. Broncho Billy finds him, carries him to his cabin and nurses him back to health. It is then that Broncho discovers that the detective is looking for him, and files the hammer of the detective's revolver, so that it will not touch the cap. The detective learns of Broncho's identity and tries to shoot him. The outlaw upbraids the detective for his unappreciative spirit and requests him to leave at the point of a gun.
- Carnos, a greaser, is sent to jail. He is a very refractory prisoner and swears to get even with the sheriff when he is liberated. On the day of the greaser's release, the sheriff had captured Broncho Billy, an outlaw, and was bringing him to justice, when he is suddenly pushed from his horse by the outlaw, and is left to wend his way across the plains afoot. Broncho Billy escapes on the sheriff's horse and unknowingly stops at the sheriff's home for food. Looking through a window he sees the greaser about to take the life of the sheriff's wife. Rushing in, he overpowers the greaser. The posse arrive and take the greaser away. The sheriff thanks Broncho Billy from the bottom of his heart and secures his pardon from the Governor.
- Broncho Billy has exhausted every foot of ground which might have held gold for them and he makes ready to strike new territory. Their little boy gets his hands on some nitro-glycerin. He has dreams of discovering some gold where his father could find none. He "plants" the explosive but it doesn't go off. Then his sister resets it and it explodes in her face. She is knocked unconscious. The girl proves not to have been seriously injured. Out on the ground, by the newly blasted hole, lies the little son, sobbing because he has hurt his sister. The parents come out rejoicing over the girl's recovery and find the ground strewn with gold.
- Frank Potter cannot afford to buy a turkey for Thanksgiving. He conceives the idea of pawning his dress suit, and at the same time his wife decides to pawn her ring, both keeping silent as to their plans. Each returns home with a turkey. Frank, feeling selfish with two turkeys, secretly gives one to charity. His wife, feeling likewise, gives one to their poverty-stricken neighbors. Upon discovering they have given away both of the fowls, they start to quarrel. While in the midst of their argument, the expressman arrives with a turkey from Frank's mother-in-law.
- Joe Benson, foreman of the Katy Mine, breaks the rules one day by taking a drink of whiskey while at work. He is seen by Bushnell, the mine boss, who lectures him severely. At noontime Mrs. Benson brings Joe's dinner. Starting home she is called into Bushnell's office, and the scoundrel attempts to force his love upon her. Looking through the window, Benson discovers the situation, butts in, knocks Bushnell down and takes his wife home. A few days later Mrs. Benson calls on Bushnell and begs him to put Benson back to work. Bushnell agrees to do so if she will leave her husband. Desiring to get Benson away from the mine, Bushnell has one of his men attempt to intoxicate him. An hour later Bushnell leaves a note at Benson's home, advising Mrs. Benson he will await her answer at his office that night. Staggering into the house Benson finds the note, secures his revolver, goes to Bushnell's office with the intention of killing him, only to find the mine boss dead on the floor from a stroke of apoplexy. Seeing that providence has stayed his hand, Benson returns home and joins his wife and little one in a prayer of thanksgiving.
- This time Alkali Ike is dissatisfied with his boarding house and, when the buxom Sophie, a two-hundred-pound widow arrives in town, buys out Tony's place and nails up cards announcing that it will be opened on the following Tuesday as a first-class boarding house, Alkali is the first to see it, rushes back and begins to lay plans for switching at once. The following Tuesday morning Alkali is found hard at work stuffing everything he possesses into a big barrel. Clothes, chaps, old boots, the flour bin, bottles of good booze and other things too numerous to mention are piled into the barrel while the dust flies in clouds. Meanwhile, all the other boys in town, with their belongings on their backs, meet before the floor of the new boarding house and clamor for admission, One by one Sophie admits them, and when Alkali finally takes leave of his irate landlady and arrives at the new place, he finds the rooms all gone and is refused shelter for the night. Mad as a hornet he hangs around and, after supper, sees Sophie and the boys in the parlor singing and having a hilarious time. Determined to win her with music, Alkali secures his trusty banjo and serenades outside the window, but gets a pail of water deluged over him for his pains. Wet and mad he tramps back to his old place, but is met by his former landlady, who throws him out bodily and deposits his belongings in the water barrel. Realizing that the world is "agin" him, Alkali retreats to the sanctity of the stable and, with his saddle for a pillow and a prayer in his heart that the horse won't tramp on him, finds rest at last.
- Broncho Billy, the sheriff, is in love with a girl, but another man wins her affections and marries her. He is a worthless sort of fellow, and when Broncho sees him in the saloon, drinking with an outlaw, he gives the bartender orders to sell him no more liquor. This causes a fight, but peace is soon restored. The outlaw then persuades his new comrade to assist him in a hold-up. Soon the sheriff and his posse are on their trail, and when they separate. Broncho leads a small party in pursuit of his rival. He finds him in his home, but decides to allow him to escape when the young wife pleads with him. Upon reaching the outside he is shot by one of Broncho's deputies. Broncho returns home satisfied that his former sweetheart is rid of the scoundrel.
- Jack Holmes, a squatter, and his daughter, Margaret, settle on land owned by Harry Rawlins. Broncho Billy, gunman, is engaged by Rawlins to eject the squatter or put him out of the way. Broncho is wounded by a half-breed and Margaret nurses him back to health. The gunman then refuses to turn Holmes out. Emery, Rawlins' son, falls in love with Margaret, and she promises to become his wife. Broncho Billy smiles as he turns on his heel to leave for other parts.
- Broncho Billy loses his job and is forced to go west in search of employment. He lands in a small western town, where he takes up gold mining. Stockdale, a westerner, also meeting with bad luck, consults Broncho Billy, and the two determine to hold up the stagecoach that day. Broncho's wife goes in search of him and is met by Stockdale, who informs her that her husband is in the next town and that the stage is leaving in a very few moments. Stockdale tells Broncho Billy that his wife is on the stage and not to hold it up. Broncho Billy meets his wife at the hotel and there is a happy reunion. He determines to start life anew.