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- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- Young Lenore Vance, loses her memory after witnessing the death of her father. She commits a series of robberies due to being brainwashed by her eccentric chemist uncle. She later becomes the person of interest in the murder of her father, being labeled by the authorities as "The Satin Girl". When Dr. Richard Taunton meets Lenore at a party thrown by Millie Brown-Potter, he becomes infatuated with her. After discovering that Lenore has taken pieces of jewelry from himself and Mrs. Potter, he uses a piece of evidence left behind to investigate the crimes himself, and makes the discovery that he Uncle is the one who killed her father. The police are notified, but they discover that he has committed suicide upon arriving at his house. It is later revealed to the audience that the entire story is in a book that Lenore is reading.
- 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.
- A war veteran gets a job on a ranch, but the foreman takes a dislike to him because the owner's daughter falls for him. Things start to look bad for the new cowboy when a calf is found shot dead and he is suspected of doing it, and a letter arrives for him from a woman claiming to be his abandoned wife.
- 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.
- Two ships are caught in the Arctic ice.
- Warton, an ex-convict, and Crowder and Devlin, both counterfeiters, join forces to set up an operation in a small western town on the edge of the desert. The town's sheriff, wanting to cut into the deal, offers them protection in return for a rake-off. The trio, not agreeable to this arrangement, incurs his enmity; and the sheriff retaliates by trying to have them hanged. All looks dim for the three when chased into the desert by the sheriff's men, but they escape.
- 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.
- F. R. Worthington, a wealthy New Yorker, wants to marry popular Priscilla Worden, but she refuses; her uncle, Wallace Rampart, who is her legal guardian, owes Worthington a large sum of money and daily encourages his stubborn ward to accept the suit. Finally, out of desperation, Uncle Wallace, hoping to remove Priscilla from other and more attractive suitors, arranges for the three of them to visit the family ranch in Arizona, but his plan fails when, once out west, Priscilla falls in love with Jim Cartwright. Three cattle thieves, whom Worthington hires to kill Jim, throw him from a cliff into a deep ravine; Jim survives, however, and is rescued by Beverly, his educated horse. Jim then evens the score with the three men, but Priscilla must return to New York. She soon wires Jim that she is being forced into marriage with Worthington. Taking a few of his trusted men with him, Jim goes to New York. There the dauntless cowboys ride up Park Avenue to a last-minute rescue, and Jim and Priscilla make plans for an immediate marriage.
- Set on the shores of Lake Michigan in 1853, Captain Plum searches for the pirate who kidnapped Marion Whitley's brother.
- Unable to pay the extra fare, The Girl--returning home after failing to make good in the city--bundles her pet dog to look like a baby. On the train the dog is mistaken for a kidnapped baby, and The Girl is left with the real baby. The presence of the baby coupled with the extraordinary explanation causes The Girl's guardians to doubt her and the town to ring with gossip. The original kidnappers, who have followed her home, attempt to retrieve the baby, and The Girl, discovered fainting in the arms of The Man who befriended her on the train, is turned out of her home. The Man loses his job for shielding The Girl. Just as they are being marched to the outskirts of town to be tarred and feathered, the guardians arrive with the real parents to claim the baby. The Girl marries her protector.
- "Mad" Vic Dyson owns a ranch, through which, unknown to him, a railroad is forced to route its right-of-way. Dayton Keever, a local cattle baron who speculates in real estate, hires the Madden gang to drive Vic off the land. Madden's men stampede Vic's cattle and cut off his water supply, but he holds firm. Vic is then responsible for an accident to Keever's secretary, Neva, that leaves her blind, and he takes the girl in when she is deserted by her fiancé. Bitten by remorse for the girl's blindness, Vic sells his cattle to Keever and deeds his ranch to Neva, with whom he has fallen in love. He then rides off to a showdown with Keever, killing several of Madden's men on the way. He fights Keever and throws him from a bridge into a swift river. Neva, who has recovered from her blindness, rides up and begs Vic to save Keever's life. After Vic pulls the cattle baron from the water, Neva tells him that the railroad has offered $50,000 for his former land and offers to share her good fortune with him on a permanent basis.
- Bank clerk Vincent Forrest (Edward Earle) loses his savings in a gambling den run by Madame Zoe (Hedda Hopper) and her provider, Van Merton (Ward Crane). Forrest's wife Ann (Marjorie Daw) begins an affair with Merton when she discovers that Forrest is infatuated with Madame Zoe. Ann loses heavily gambling, but Vincent soon realizes what is happening in time to save his wife and to restore her happiness.
- During a feud between sheep-men and cattle ranchers, Sheriff Richards is murdered by a man with the ace of spades tattooed on his arm. Chick Richards returns from college upon learning of his father's death and impresses the townspeople as a foppish "dude" with no interest in avenging the murder. Soon after Chick's return, a mysterious, white-robed figure appears in town, fighting for the rights of the oppressed sheep-men. Black Morgan, the leader of the cattlemen, attacks Alice Norris, Chick's former sweetheart, and the White Rider appears, besting Morgan in a brutal fight. The mysterious stranger then removes his robe, reveals himself to be Chick, and arrests Morgan, who has the ace of spades tattooed on his arm. Afterward, Alice and Chick are married.
- 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.
- Frank Mathewson, Jr., a would-be cowboy and the son of a Chicago saddle manufacturer, decides to investigate on his own some unexplained competition his father's firm has encountered in Claxton, Arizona. In Claxton, cowboy Luke Strong has been blackmailed by a rival firm to run Mathewson's salesmen out of town and promptly does the same when junior shows up. Frank returns, captures Luke after attempted robbery, and continues his romance with Millie Atwood, daughter of his father's client.
- Joe Dayton is in charge of building a railroad through a section of northwestern Canada. Jacques Durand, a bandit whose territory the railroad is to run though, knows that if it is completed it will bring law and order and drive him out, so he sets out to stop it any way he can--and the fact that he and Dayton look enough like each other to be twins makes his job somewhat easier.
- Trailing the man who killed his father, Scar Hanan goes to work on the ranch of Bart Hutchins, a mean fellow who takes an instant dislike to Scar and frames him for cattle rustling. During his trial, Scar escapes with the help of Shorty and heads for South America. He gets as far as Los Angeles, where he saves Marion Fleming from a runaway horse and falls in love with her. Marion's father, a surgeon, removes the disfiguring scar from Hanan's face. Hanan then returns to Hutchins' ranch, which, he has discovered from Fleming, is his own property, having been stolen by Hutchins from the elder Hanan. Hutchins attempts to kill Scar and is badly beaten for his pains. The sheriff arrests Hutchins; Scar gets his property and marries Marion.
- City youth sets out for West to avenge father's murder. Arrives in town where killer lives and after a series of fights he accomplishes his purpose. Falls in love with school teacher and resolves to stay in town.
- 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.