How the Tenderfoot Made Good (1910)
Reckless friends, the inviting bottle and late hours have been the means of ruining many a youth, and especially one who is an only son. Arthur Kane is just such an only son, but fortunately his father turns him out of the house in time to save the boy from further degradation. His mother furnishes him with the means to go out west, trusting in spite of all, in his promise to make a man of himself when away from his evil associates. Dressed in the height of eastern fashion, Arthur affords considerable amusement to the cowpunchers as he alights at a small cattle station out in Montana. He doesn't mind this, though, for with his athletic training he feels quite capable of holding his own amongst them. Learning the location of Judge Lawson's ranch, he at once applies for a job. More in a spirit of fun than because of actual need the Judge places him in the charge of his foreman. The eastern lad soon wins the good-will of his fellow cowboys, and especially does he prove attractive to the Judge's daughter, Ruth. They soon become constant companions, and that fact arouses the ire of the jealous foreman, who goads the easterner until his patience is beyond control. The climax is reached when the surly foreman pours some hot coffee down Kane's back. It takes but an instant to make a wreck of a bunkhouse, and when the Judge hurries in he finds his foreman and new cowpuncher engaged in pummeling each other in the midst of a wrecked room. Roiling with rage, he discharges poor Kane and severely reprimands the foreman. Packing his grip, Kane is soon on his way in search of a new job, and when nearing a crowd in the street he learns that the Sheriff has been held up and robbed by a notorious outlaw, who has bound him to his horse and sent him back to town. The Sheriff resigns his position and returns the star (his badge of office) to the Judge. This is the psychological moment to make good and young Kane embraces it. Hurrying back to the Judge, he demands a chance to earn the Sheriff's star by capturing the outlaw. The Judge agrees and young Kane prepares immediately for the venture. Borrowing a girl's outfit from Ruth, the Judge's daughter, he puts it on and is soon cantering along the lonely road. Sure enough he is held up by the outlaw. Spurring his horse, he leads the bandit a merry chase. The outlaw eventually overtakes him, and reaching out, seizes the supposed girl about the waist and swings him onto the saddle. It doesn't take Arthur long to pull the outlaw's gun from its holster and hold it to his head, and in that position the tenderfoot brings the desperate outlaw into town and thereat wins the Sheriff's star. Of course, incidentally, he captures the Judge's daughter, Ruth. And that is how the tenderfoot made good.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
