When Penny (Love) goes to a ranch, she is mistaken for a thief. She encounters the ranch foreman (Oakman), who tries to reform her. When another girl is revealed to be the real thief, Penny's reputation is cleared, and she reveals her true identity: a film actress on vacation. She and the foreman realize their love for each other, and Penny decides to stay on the ranch with him.
Riley Sinclair (Farnum) seeks to avenge the death of his brother, whose three companions – Quade, Sanderson, and Lowrie – left him to die in the desert. Two of the three men die, and the third is spared so that he can confess to the crime. Sinclair helps John Caspar (Love), a schoolteacher, who is actually a rich young woman who is trying to get away from her opportunist husband. When her identity is revealed, she and Sinclair fall in love.
Dans le premier épisode, John Goodnight est un avocat qui, en raison de ses frasques notoires dans la ville de Chicago, est nommé juge itinérant dans les territoires de l'Ouest. On apprend que ses parents ont été abattus par des bandits alors qu'ils quittaient leur terre trop aride. Il est le seul survivant. Suivant les traces du juge assassiné avec ses parents, il revient faire œuvre de justice. Il croise la route d'une femme que le destin lui interdit d'aimer.