John B. O'Brien

John B. O'Brien

Born: December 13, 1884
Died: August 15, 1936
in Roanoke, Virginia, USA

Movies for John B. O'Brien...

Saturday's Lesson
Title: Saturday's Lesson
Character: The Devil
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A man dressed as the devil scares the gang into minding their mothers.
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Cat, Dog & Co.
Title: Cat, Dog & Co.
Character: Fruit Vendor
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe even manages to find patience for a nagging flea that persists in biting him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been tormenting animals with his games, dreams that the animals have turned the tables on him.
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The Bride's Play
Title: The Bride's Play
Character: Marquis of Muckross
Released: January 22, 1922
Type: Movie
A sweet-natured young Irish woman is courted by a romantic poet and a local country gentleman. Which man will she choose?
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A Daughter of the Law
Title: A Daughter of the Law
Character: Jim Garth
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
When Eddie, the son of a police officer, gets involved with a criminal gang, his sister tries to steer him away from crime.
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Annabelle Lee
Title: Annabelle Lee
Character: David Martin
Released: May 20, 1921
Type: Movie
This drama was based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
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The Stealers
Title: The Stealers
Character: Man of Dawn
Released: October 3, 1920
Type: Movie
Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and taken up a life of crime as head of a band of pickpockets masquerading as religious workers who ply their trade in the wake of a traveling carnival company. He tries to keep the true nature of his work secret from his daughter Julie, but she learns the truth while traveling with his band for a week.
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Bride 13
Title: Bride 13
Character: Lt. Bob Norton
Released: September 10, 1920
Type: Movie
A gang of Tripolitan pirates swooped down and kidnapped 13 wealthy brides, whom they held for ransom.
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Wings of Pride
Title: Wings of Pride
Character: Kent Ordway
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Olive Muir, a haughty society girl, objects when Alice Prentice, a girl of lower station, comes to visit her family. After Alice's drunken father comes to visit the Muir home, Olive learns to her horror that she is adopted and that Prentice is her real father.
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Bab's Diary
Title: Bab's Diary
Character: Harold Valentine
Released: October 7, 1917
Type: Movie
Bab comes home for the Christmas holidays. Given to fabrications, Bab has been keeping a diary in which she describes and imaginary boyfriend named Harold Valentine. Imagine what happens when a real Harold Valentine shows up as her parents' house guest.
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The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Title: The Second Mrs. Roebuck
Released: August 23, 1914
Type: Movie
Mabel Mack's mother is deserted by her father and the mother dies. All that Mabel retains of her family history is a group photograph of her father, mother and herself, in a locket which she always wears.
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A Western Redemption
Title: A Western Redemption
Character: Steve Wilson
Released: October 21, 1911
Type: Movie
Tom Perkins, a Chicago youth, is arrested, charged with being one of the carbarn bandits, to whom is attributed a series of bold robberies. The disgraced parents also suffer for their son's crimes, the elder Perkins being thrown out of a job, and they are forced to leave their rented cottage, on account of the bad character of their son.
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Spike Shannon's Last Fight
Title: Spike Shannon's Last Fight
Character: The Opponent
Released: August 26, 1911
Type: Movie
'Spike' Shannon, a pugilist by occupation, signs to fight a 10-round bout, with another young knight of the ring. A contract is drawn and 'Spike' and his backers leave the office of the promoter. On the street they encounter a young couple, evidently at outs, but which proves later, upon the girl's explanation, to be a flirtation, in which she has no desire to take part. The masher has insolently insulted her. 'Spike' takes in the situation at once and with his strong right arm knocks the dude sprawling.
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The Corporation and the Ranch Girl
Title: The Corporation and the Ranch Girl
Released: July 8, 1911
Type: Movie
Upon the death of her father, Ann Newton is made the heiress of an extensive and valuable ranch in Arizona, when she is visited by the officials of the S.W. Railroad Company, who, seeking to extend the tracks of their company, find it necessary to buy a portion of the ranch. Ann refuses to part with the ranch at any price
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The Tribe's Penalty
Title: The Tribe's Penalty
Released: June 17, 1911
Type: Movie
Dorothy Sloane, the daughter of a white settler in the west, leaves her home one day for a ride on horseback to the village, but on the way in intercepted by a party of Indians who, after a hard chase, capture her and taking her to the village, bring her before the chief.
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The Infant at Snakeville
Title: The Infant at Snakeville
Released: June 3, 1911
Type: Movie
Mrs. Graham and her baby boy are on their way from the east to an uncle's ranch in Wyoming, and they have completed the long journey in safety up to the time they are to take the stagecoach to Snakeville, near which the ranch is located. Through an accident Baby "Bumps," as he is fondly called by his mother, is carried off by the coach and Mrs. Graham left behind.
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The Lucky Card
Title: The Lucky Card
Released: May 27, 1911
Type: Movie
George Maxwell, a young cowboy, rescues a fever-stricken Mexican prospector and carrying him to an inn in the vicinity like a good Samaritan, pays the innkeeper a sum of money to care for the stricken man until he recovers.
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Alkali Ike's Auto
Title: Alkali Ike's Auto
Released: May 19, 1911
Type: Movie
Alkali Ike and Mustang Pete are both wooing the same woman. Ike hopes to take her for a horseback ride, but she chooses instead to go with Pete, who has a horse and carriage. Ike trades his horses for an automobile, hoping to win her over that way, but things do not work out as planned.
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The Puncher's New Love
Title: The Puncher's New Love
Released: May 13, 1911
Type: Movie
Harvey Barton, a young cowboy, is happily in love with Kate Bowers, a pretty western girl. One day he calls at her home, shows her a handbill advertising a barn dance to be held at one of the nearby ranches, and asks her to go with him. On his way back to the ranch he comes upon a beautiful young woman, whose horse has met with an accident and Harvey dismounts and bashfully asks her if he can be of any assistance. She accepts his help and invites him to accompany her home. She is inclined to flirt and easily turns the foolish young cowpuncher's head, and the meeting ends with him inviting her to accompany him to the dance.
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The Indian Maiden's Lesson
Title: The Indian Maiden's Lesson
Released: April 22, 1911
Type: Movie
Rev. Warren Addington, the pastor of an eastern evangelical church, is left a will wherein is given the location of a valuable mine in Montana, unknown to any other living person. He takes only one man into his confidence, Jack Beardsley, a westerner and a seemingly trustworthy man, who is familiar with the country.
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Across the Plains
Title: Across the Plains
Character: The Cowboy's Friend
Released: April 11, 1911
Type: Movie
Jennie Lee and her father are on their way to Golden California, from a little Kansas farm, traveling in a prairie schooner. At the last settlement visited by the two, the old man, who has a weakness for drink, purchases several bottles of whiskey, which he begins drinking when they have made camp for the night. A lone cowboy calls upon them and finds the old man in a jovial mood and cautions him to beware of the hostile tribe of Indians, through whose country they are now traveling.
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The Sheriff's Chum
Title: The Sheriff's Chum
Released: April 8, 1911
Type: Movie
Two young men of a western town, Will Phelps and George Arden, are in love with the same girl, the belle of the village. Having been pals from boyhood they decide to let the girl choose between them and to abide by her decision without argument or malice. Jessie chooses Phelps, and Arden, although deeply hurt by her decision, presses the hands of both and wishes them happiness. Several years elapse during which time Jessie and Will are married and the latter has become sheriff of the county. It is then that Arden returns and the two men are apparently happy in being together again.
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The Faithful Indian
Title: The Faithful Indian
Released: March 18, 1911
Type: Movie
Will Talbot, a miner, is severely injured in an explosion of dynamite on his claim and his life is saved through the aid of his faithful Indian servant. The Indian carries him to their shack and rides to town for the doctor. When the latter arrives he finds that Talbot has not only suffered severe face burns, but seems to have also lost all knowledge of his identity, a species of insanity occasionally the result of a violent shock.
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The Count and the Cowboys
Title: The Count and the Cowboys
Released: January 7, 1911
Type: Movie
The scene is laid in the West and presents a French count, in immaculate attire, suddenly dropped among the cowboys. Following an altercation he offers to fight a duel, but when the results of a scheme arranged by the cowboys to show his opponent killing duelists by wholesale are seen, he breaks away and barely succeeds in catching the stage on his way back to the effete East, while the cowboys make merry over their successful joke.
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A Cowboy's Vindication
Title: A Cowboy's Vindication
Released: December 10, 1910
Type: Movie
A shot during a struggle, and Frank Morrison is branded with the mark of Cain, but by his own efforts the real murderer is discovered.
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Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present
Title: Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present
Released: December 3, 1910
Type: Movie
Circle C Ranch's Wedding Present is a silent Western
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Hank and Lank: As Sandwich Men
Title: Hank and Lank: As Sandwich Men
Character: The Cook
Released: November 22, 1910
Type: Movie
Hank and Lank have inside information that it's meal time, but it looks as if they would have to skip a meal or two until Hank's fertile brain maps out a royal road to a big feed.
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The Masquerade Cop
Title: The Masquerade Cop
Released: November 8, 1910
Type: Movie
The Masquerade Cop is a silent Comedy
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The Silent Message
Title: The Silent Message
Released: October 29, 1910
Type: Movie
Jeff Bandera, outlaw, has been capture by the sheriff, who is taking him by rail to the nearest lockup. Jeff is desperate and when the train slows down to a curve he makes a leap through the window and, despite his handcuffs, escapes serious injury. Before the sheriff can leave the train and pursue him Jeff has taken refuge in the gulches of the rough country
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Pals of the Range
Title: Pals of the Range
Character: Jack Hartley
Released: October 22, 1910
Type: Movie
The scene opens in the bunk house of the Lazy K Ranch, where we see Jack Hartley and his pal Jack Smythe. Hartley has just received a letter from the east, in which his mother asks him for money. Hartley is much depressed. He is broke and sees no immediate prospect of recouping his fortunes. Smythe, learning of Hartley's dilemma, offers his roll to his pal, who gratefully accepts it.
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A Close Shave
Title: A Close Shave
Released: September 21, 1910
Type: Movie
Mr. Marc and his wife are at breakfast when the butler announces an early caller and tenders his master a card bearing the name of Mr. Bunco. When Marc hurries into the reception room he is greeted by a gentleman of prepossessing appearance, who, after a warm handshake, introduces himself as the agent of the Silver Sucker mine. He has heard that Mr. Marc is seeking a profitable investment and was advised by a friend of Mr. Marc's to see this latter. The gentleman offers other credentials, but the mention of the friend's name is enough for the unwary Marc, and he refuses to put the gentleman to such an inconvenience. At length it is arranged, and Marc informs the gentleman that if he will call at his office at 2 o'clock they will close the deal. Mr. Marc wears a beard, and on his way downtown he suddenly resolves to shave.
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A Flirty Affliction
Title: A Flirty Affliction
Character: Officer O'Rourke
Released: September 21, 1910
Type: Movie
Pretty Molly is afflicted with a peculiar nervous disease and after having tried many doctors is finally referred to a certain great specialist, who has had success with cases similar to her own. To briefly describe Molly's ailment would be in stating that the muscles of her throat and neck were uncontrollable, causing her to throw back her head in a way resembling a person beckoning to another.
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The Pony Express Rider
Title: The Pony Express Rider
Character: Pony O'Brien
Released: September 17, 1910
Type: Movie
"Pony" O'Brien, or Number 3 of the relay between two desert-bound western cities, draws his horse before his sweetheart's house and lingers somewhat longer with his packet of mail as he tells her the good news of a raise in salary which means they will soon be ready to marry.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Title: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Released: August 24, 1910
Type: Movie
Our friend Blink is a baseball bug and a devotee of the sport. One day he finds he will have time in the afternoon to visit the ball park, and from that moment until noon he is in an excited fever, refusing to talk anything but baseball to the business men who call on him.
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The Dumb Half Breed's Defense
Title: The Dumb Half Breed's Defense
Released: August 20, 1910
Type: Movie
A silent Western.
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The Count That Counted
Title: The Count That Counted
Released: August 17, 1910
Type: Movie
Jimmy Little, a reporter for the Daily Howl, is in love. The object of his affections this time is pretty Dorothy Alexander, daughter of a millionaire, and this is the unfortunate part of it, because Dorothy's father suspicions the reporter of wanting the millions more than Dorothy. However nothing could be furthermost in the mind of Jimmy
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Under Western Skies
Title: Under Western Skies
Character: The Bartender
Released: August 6, 1910
Type: Movie
The girl gives herself to one of the men to escape a worse fate, though she separates from another lover to do it. Later she discovers in a dramatic way that her lover was a poltroon and turns to her husband for protection.
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The Bad Man's Last Deed
Title: The Bad Man's Last Deed
Released: July 2, 1910
Type: Movie
Arizona Pete, typical bad man, is the hero of the story.
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The Forest Ranger
Title: The Forest Ranger
Released: June 25, 1910
Type: Movie
The scene opens in a backwoods hut, the home of Dave Barlow and his stepdaughter Anna. Barlow is one of a party of timber thieves who have been working stealthily and to good profit in the government forest reserves on which property they live.
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The Ranchman's Feud
Title: The Ranchman's Feud
Character: Jack Matthews
Released: June 11, 1910
Type: Movie
Hiram Matthews, a western ranchman, owns an apple orchard which borders on the property of Jesse Forsyth. The former and his wife are picking apples in the orchard from a tree, the branches of which droop over the fence of the Forsyth property. Forsyth and Matthews have never been on good terms and when the former, who has brooded long over supposed ills done him by Matthews, finds this latter and his wife trespassing on his property, he orders them off at the point of a shotgun.
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Away Out West
Title: Away Out West
Character: Second Prospector
Released: June 4, 1910
Type: Movie
Herbert Mills, a young chap from the east, with his partner, Walter Daniels, an experienced miner, are about to set out on a prospecting trip through the mountains.
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The Little Doctor of the Foothills
Title: The Little Doctor of the Foothills
Released: May 21, 1910
Type: Movie
A humorous picture, depicting the experience of a pretty little woman doctor who goes to Arizona to practice her profession and whose presence so works upon the cowboys that they all require her aid almost instantly.
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The Cowpuncher's Ward
Title: The Cowpuncher's Ward
Released: May 14, 1910
Type: Movie
'Red' Bowman is a worthless renegade, an alleged rustler, to whom fate has been unduly kind to allow him to escape so long the honest judgment and double earned punishment. His daughter, a curly-headed ragged little sunbeam, keeps house for him as best she can, accepting with model fortitude her brutal father's blows and lashings. When he beats her too mercilessly she runs away, if she can, to hide until his anger cools. One day he is interrupted in his amusement of "lickin' the kid" by a group of stern, determined cowboys, who threaten to lynch him if he dares whip the little girl again. 'Red' slinks away and postpones the lashing for another time. That night, he and a pal, another black-hearted scoundrel, make a raid on a bunch of cattle, but are caught in the act.
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The Cowboy's Sweetheart
Title: The Cowboy's Sweetheart
Released: April 23, 1910
Type: Movie
A love story complication with Western trimmings.
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The Bad Man and the Preacher
Title: The Bad Man and the Preacher
Character: Snake Williams
Released: April 16, 1910
Type: Movie
"Snake" Williams, typical bad man, and a little group of cowboys are found loitering lazily about the Snakeville, Ariz. barroom, when the noon-day stage coach out of Phoenix rumbles around pike and deposits one lone passenger. Interest is immediately aroused and as the stage coach pulls out, Snake, the constant bully, sidles up to the newly arrived stranger to inquire the latter's business, explaining at the same time that although the town has no mayor or reception committee, he will be pleased to do the honors.
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The Mistaken Bandit
Title: The Mistaken Bandit
Released: April 16, 1910
Type: Movie
Jim Thaw runs an isolated general store in California. He occupies a position as agent for the Great Eastern Express Company, which in the west is a day job. One day the stage drives up and deposits a money box with Thaw with instructions from the general manager of the Great Eastern that it is to be held with him over night, adding that he must keep a careful watch as it is reported that Buck Brady, an outlaw, has been seen skulking in the vicinity of Thaw's store.
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Method in His Madness
Title: Method in His Madness
Character: Man Outside Third Bar
Released: March 16, 1910
Type: Movie
A doddering old gentleman, out for his morning's constitutional, suffers an attack of epilepsy in front of a saloon in the country town. Pedestrians run to his rescue and the barkeeper of the saloon brings out a good jolt of whiskey to revive the stricken one. A tramp who has noted the accident, has also mentally noted the glass of whiskey, and being thirsty for a drink himself, he turns away, a brilliant scheme revolving in his mind. A few minutes later the tramp in passing another saloon is seen to fall and go into violent contortions. A crowd gathers and the saloonkeeper comes out with the dose of whiskey. "Weary" is delighted, and meeting an old tramp friend of his, puts him wise to the little game.
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The Mexican's Faith
Title: The Mexican's Faith
Character: The Scoundrel
Released: February 26, 1910
Type: Movie
Tony Perez, a Mexican cowpuncher, is driven from the ranch where he is employed for some misdemeanor or other, and after vainly endeavoring to find work, tries the gate of Dan Farman's ranch, "The Mosquito," and applies for a job. His hard luck story rings true and old Dan, who is of a charitable turn, puts the Mexican to work.
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The Cowboy and the Squaw
Title: The Cowboy and the Squaw
Released: February 19, 1910
Type: Movie
Tom Ripley, a cowpuncher from the Circle A ranch, wins the hatred of Jim Simpson, another cowpuncher, when he defends Lightfeather, a pretty squaw, from the insults of Simpson.
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The Outlaw's Sacrifice
Title: The Outlaw's Sacrifice
Character: The Rival
Released: January 29, 1910
Type: Movie
Matt Malone, a highwayman and night rider who has long baffled the police authorities, loves Nona McMahon, posing with her as a cowboy from up country.
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Won by a Hold-Up
Title: Won by a Hold-Up
Character: Bill's Friend
Released: January 19, 1910
Type: Movie
Bill Smith, a cowpuncher, is in love with Nell Parsons, daughter of Jon Parsons, a gruff old rancher. Bill wins Nell as far as she is concerned, but he must first ask father. When Bill broaches the subject to the old man, the father kicks him off the premises. All subsequent meetings are frustrated.
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Electric Insoles
Title: Electric Insoles
Released: January 12, 1910
Type: Movie
Have you ever heard of Dr. Wright's Wonderful Electric Insoles? "Guaranteed to cure anything the matter with the feet, rheumatism, corns, bunions, also a powerful vitality stimulant, makes you feel young and giddy and alarmingly lively," etc. etc.
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The Heart of a Cowboy
Title: The Heart of a Cowboy
Released: December 25, 1909
Type: Movie
Two handsome young Americans, cowboys of the "Bar O" ranch, fall in love with Kitty Blair, the pretty daughter of a neighboring ranchman.
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The Ranchman's Rival
Title: The Ranchman's Rival
Character: Walter Milton
Released: December 11, 1909
Type: Movie
The Ranchman's Rival is a silent Western
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His Reformation
Title: His Reformation
Released: December 4, 1909
Type: Movie
Tom Carlton, leader of a band of Western bandits, tires of his life of crime and resolves to reform.
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The Best Man Wins
Title: The Best Man Wins
Released: November 20, 1909
Type: Movie
Charles Shea, the handsome young foreman of the Bar Z ranch, has won the love of the winsome daughter of his employer, John Graham. Alice and he are engaged to be married when a telegram announcing the death of his father and the request that he immediately return East, is handed Shea. Promising to return immediately the estate is settled. Shea bids Alice good-bye and leaves for the East. A year passes and no word from Charley. The girl is in despair and. though every cowpuncher on the place loves her madly, she refuses each one in turn, declaring that she will wait for Charley, whom she is sure will return soon.