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  • A Frontier Mystery (1913)
  • Short | 20 min | Short, Western
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A Frontier Mystery (1913)
Short | 20 min | Short, Western
The Indian chief mourns for and is burying his little child, and his squaw is inconsolable. An Indian goes to a saloon and is plied with the forbidden firewater. Another Indian tries to get him to leave. He refuses and when he finds he is ...See moreThe Indian chief mourns for and is burying his little child, and his squaw is inconsolable. An Indian goes to a saloon and is plied with the forbidden firewater. Another Indian tries to get him to leave. He refuses and when he finds he is being tricked by a gambler, a fight ensues and the Indian is killed. His companion escapes and tells the chief that his brother has been killed by a pale face. The chief swears vengeance. He goes to the fort to demand justice, and is told that Red Tape demands a civil and not a military trial. The chief, unable to comprehend and believing that there is no justice where the redskins are concerned, takes an oath over his brother's body to exterminate the pale faces. The Indians go on the warpath. They first attack isolated settlers and in one instance are repulsed by sharp shooters, who pick off several of the redskins from a tree. Prairie schooners, filled with settlers fleeing from the avenging Indians, leave their wagons and ride off on the horses. A party of several wagons is caught and massacred. A woman has her baby torn from her arms by the Indian chief, who is about to kill both when his squaw, with the mother instinct, begs him to save the woman and to let her have the child to fill the void caused by the loss of her own baby. The Indians decamp with the little girl, and when the troopers arrive they find a raving woman, bereft of reason. The squaw cuddles the baby to her bosom and is content. Fifteen years later the poor mad woman lives in a tree house. It is partially ornamented with scalps, scalps of Indians, for the wild woman has become the scourge of the red man. She hunts amongst the rocks. When the Indians approach she throws a rock at one of them. He falls dead. His superstitious companions flee in terror. The wild woman laughs with glee and adds another scalp to her collection. The little white child taken by the squaw grows into a beautiful young woman and she lives happily with the Indians and is attached to the squaw. The authorities at Washington write to the commandant of the fort, requesting that investigation be made of the presence of a wild woman stated to be in the vicinity of the fort, a young lieutenant offers to take it up unofficially, and is granted permission. The wild woman kills another Indian and the tribe is filled with terror. The young lieutenant, at the head of a detachment, visits the Indians and learns of the terrible scourge. Several of them lead the lieutenant to the scene of the outrages. The wild woman sees the cavalry and hesitates. Then she sees the Indians and savagely kills one with a rock from her three home. An Indian fires, and the lieutenant climbs the tree and finds her desperately wounded on her platform. The cavalry take her, unconscious to the Indian camp where she is laid on a pallet in a tepee. White Dove bathes her head and the woman comes to and looks at her curiously. She suddenly grabs at the locket White Dove is wearing and faints. The lieutenant notes all this and interviews the chief, when he learns how his squaw adopted the child, thinking the mother dead. The lieutenant is much attracted to the beautiful girl. Time passes. The mother recovers her reason and is taken back to civilization. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Feb 8, 1913 (United States)

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