Jess Slocum lives with her father Jim in a cabin on the mountainside above an army camp. When his daughter questions his hatred of soldiers, Slocum admits to having been drummed out of an army camp years earlier for the crime of bootlegging. Slocum, still continuing his profession of moonshining, is tracked to his cabin by revenue officers, who fire their guns at him. Jess is hit and her father is sent to prison. Wounded, Jess is cared for by Captain Neville and his sister, but the ostracism of the neighborhood children sends Jess running back to her cabin. On the way home, she overhears Mexican bandits planning to seize the ammunition depot of the militia. Rushing back, Jess warns the camp in time to save the depot. Slocum then confesses that Jess is really Col. Tremain's daughter, whom the moonshiner had stolen as a baby in revenge for being thrown out of camp. Jess is then reunited with her family and the young captain asks her to marry him. -AFI
This project gave Minter an opportunity to play a more mature role than in previous assignments that had usually stressed her more girlish youth. The concept was well received by the reviewers.