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Rodgers, an old forty-niner, learning of a gold strike in the hills, decides to make one last prospecting trip. Lillian, his daughter, begs to accompany him, and he finally grants her entreaties. They start oft together in a prairie ...See moreRodgers, an old forty-niner, learning of a gold strike in the hills, decides to make one last prospecting trip. Lillian, his daughter, begs to accompany him, and he finally grants her entreaties. They start oft together in a prairie schooner, but not until Lillian has pledged herself to marry Fred, a suitor, on her return. Joe, a rival, hearing of Fred's success with Lillian, decides that he will have her at any cost, and starts out on horseback after the departing prospectors. Fred learns of Joe's threats and also follows. The prairie schooner has camped and the father has left for a bucket of fresh water when Joe arrives. Infuriated by Lillian's coolness to him, he ties her to the wagon, and is about to drive away with her when Fred arrives. A duel between the two men follows. In the meantime the horses, frightened by the confusion, run away and Lillian, since she is bound, is unable to stop them. To add to her danger, the wagon catches fire from Joe's carelessly dropped match, and soon the helpless girl is surrounded by flames. At the stream her father sees the runaway, and, getting a horse from a passing cowboy, follows. Lillian finally frees herself and jumps from the wagon, while Joe, seeing that Fred is fast gaining on him, swings to the limb of a tree and fires at his rival, wounding him. Fred finds Lillian, but the less fortunate rival falls in a gully, in his attempt to get away, and is killed. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less