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Learn more- Jack Banks and Tex Reeves are friendly rivals for the hand of Bess Harper, daughter of a rancher and horse dealer. Jack is line rider on an outlying ranch. Tex is Harper's corral boss. Harper favors Tex's attentions to his daughter, regarding Jack a drunken loafer. Jack protects a half-breed from a severe beating at the hands of Tex, during a dispute over a poker hand. The same evening in a drunken stupor, he loans his new boots to Tex to attend a dance. Tex, while saddling his horse, accidentally steps in the mud by the water trough, leaving a distinct impression of Jack's boot heels, which later gets that gentleman in bad. The following morning Jack's horse, after an impatient night of pawing at the hitch rail, enters the saloon, and by pulling off Jack's hat, dumping his whiskey bottle over, coaxes his master out and kneels for him to mount. As he is about to ride away, the stage drives up. He waits for the mail, receives a letter from his mother, saying she is in poor health and in need of a little money. Ashamed of his prodigality and too proud to borrow from his friends, he sells his prize horse to Harper, and sends the proceeds home. That night the horse breaks out of Harper's corral and beats it for Jack's lonely cabin. Tex, aroused at the noise, rushes into the empty corral. The half-breed, who has been laying there for Tex, seeing an opportunity in the deserted corral for vengeance, takes a shot at Tex. Suspicion naturally points to Jack. Jack is captured and jailed. Tex slowly recovers, but the wound in his head has clouded his memory. The half-breed, hearing of Jack's capture, induces Bess to help plan his escape. They accomplish a clever stunt, and Jack stays hidden in the back country for a month. Bess, at her father's instigation, has become engaged to Tex. Jack, while rustling grub one day, wanders too far from his hiding place, and is recaptured after a running fight by one of the deputies. The same day the mail brings a letter from the half-breed in Australia, confessing to the shooting of Tex. Later Tex recovers his memory, and entirely clears Jack of the attempted murder and horse stealing. Later, seeing Bess' preference, he nobly gives up the girl to Jack, after exacting a promise from his rival to "cut out all booze." Harper relents and turns Jack's horse over to him, resplendent in a new lady's silver-mounted saddle, remarking, "Wedding present, Jack, but he's still in my family."
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