The Cowboy and the Easterner (1910)
When the Widow Melrose opened the letter from her brother, who has one of the finest ranches in the middle west, and read his invitation to come out for a couple of months and bring her daughter along she was overjoyed. The daughter, too is delighted, and impulsively asks her sweetheart a young New Yorker, to come along with them. He eagerly accepts and a few days after the receipt of the letter they are on their way west. Sam Stout has all the available cowboys on the place, with an Indian or two, to meet the party from the east, and they sure do give them a rousing welcome. Loaded with grips and bags the party starts for the buckboard to carry them to the ranch, when Mabel, the widow's daughter catches her first and sudden view of on Indian. She promptly screams and throws her arms about the neck of the most available man, who happens to be George Matthews, her uncle's favorite cowboy. He assures her there is no danger and offers his escort, which is gladly accepted by the interested girl; all this to the discomfiture of the youth from the East. It doesn't take many days before Mabel and George are almost constant companions and when the Easterner complains of the girl's neglect of him the widow concludes that the cowboy must stop calling on her daughter. She insists upon Matthews going away, and when she appeals strongly to his honor he has no other alternative but to go. Uncle Stout, anticipating the result of the widow's talk, makes other arrangements and asks George not to go until the following day. He then prepares and executes a plan that not only succeeds in showing the caliber of both the cowboy and the Easterner, but actually forces the young fellow to go back east on the first train, and also causes the widow to remove all obstacles in the path of the affairs of her daughter and the Westerner, and it did not take George very long to decorate the littlest finger in the world with a diamond. And this is the scheme Uncle Stout planned: He invited the Easterner and his niece for an outing in the canyon, and purposely leaving the young folks to spoon, he steals away with his sister. This was the signal for a certain cowboy, disguised as a bear, to appear and the frightened Easterner lost no time in getting away, leaving the fainting girl eaten, as he feared he himself would be. The cunning rancher also bad his cowboy George near the spot. He heard the screams and rescued the fair lady, but failed to see the bear, because that particular bear was by that time disrobing himself with much amusement amidst his companions.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
