[1] As described in a film magazine,[2] Robert McCarthy (Carey) beats his way on a passenger train to a mining camp located near an unexplored waste called the Canyon of the Fools.
En route he discovers that his former sweetheart May (Clayton) is on the train, having promised to marry Jim Harper (Stanton) whom she is to meet at the camp.
The Sheriff hires him as deputy on his promise to help run down the head of an outlaw gang that is operating in the canyon.
Bob's one desire is to revenge himself on a man named Torrance who double-crossed him and had him unjustly convicted of a crime.
Once thought to be lost, Canyon of the Fools was one of ten silent films digitally preserved in Russia's Gosfilmofond archive and provided to the Library of Congress in October 2010.