The dramatic apex of the film featured two men and a girl defending themselves against an attack by an intoxicated Mexican soldiers until they are rescued by United States Troopers.
The hero of the drama, a young prospector discovers a gold mine but is shot by the father of the girl he loves.
[2] The Moving Picture World provided a synopsis from 1914:[citation needed] Steve Brady, a young prospector, and his three pals search in vain for months among the foothills for a vein of gold that will make them rich.
Steve, while stumbling through the underbrush one day, trips, and, in throwing out his hand to save himself, accidentally strikes a rich lode.
He is about to kill Steve, but his wife interferes only to be brutally beaten, and he desists only when his daughter threatens to shoot him.