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A Selig picture which has all the vigor and action of the West, with the breezy plains, the rearing and plunging horses and a huge drove of cattle careering madly over the prairies, which is so well produced that involuntarily one listens to hear the thunder of the thousands of hoofs as they beat upon the sward. There is a thread of love story running through it. The rival for the young woman's affections undertakes to drive the stampeded cattle over the sleeping lover, but he is saved by the girl, and when the story is told the cowboys give the villain a sound spanking and kick him out of camp. His offense makes him appear so cowardly and mean that he is not considered worth hanging. Such films have little dramatic quality in them, but they are picturesque. The characters do something and they are, to that extent, interesting. In a way they are educational. They reproduce phases of American life which are fast passing away, and there is always the fascination for them which accompanies anything that has so much vigor and determination as were characteristic of the wild, free life on the plains. - The Moving Picture World, September 18, 1909