Jim Bentley and his little daughter, while seeking a new home in the West, come across an abandoned cabin which they occupy. Bright Star, a pretty Indian girl, is often with the little girl and a genuine attachment grows up between them. One day in town Bright Star is insulted by Black Bill, a local bully. Jim Bentley, riding into town that day, sees the incident and severely trounces Black Bill, thereby gaining the everlasting enmity of Bill and furnishing much delight to the loungers about the store. Black Bill avenges himself by stealing the daughter of Bentley. The latter gives immediate chase with the aid of Bright Star. Separating about the outlaw's camp, Bright Star takes one direction and Bentley the other. Black Bill, rushing into the bushes at a noise, captures Bright Star. During the scuffle, Bentley overpowers the two confederates, seizes his child and hurries to the edge of a dangerous precipice. Meanwhile, Bright Star, fighting Black Bill, obtains possession of his gun and holding him up, makes her escape to town for a posse. During this period, Bentley, seeing no other mode of escape climbs down a dangerous rock with the girl tightly holding him about the neck. The outlaws are unable to get down to him there and patiently wait. Bright Star then returns with the posse who capture Black Bill and his two friends. They are then faced by the awful problem of getting Jim Bentley to earth safely. Bentley is so situated on the shelving rock that he can neither go up nor come down. All attempts to throw a rope up to him prove unavailing. In this frightful emergency, Bright Star has an idea. She calls up to him to unravel the little girl's woolen stocking. This he does letting the long skein of yarn over the precipice so that the rope can be attached to it. In this unique way, Jim Bentley and child are rescued. -Moving Picture World, November 9, 1912, p. 596.