Overland to Fremont (1910)
With the snow-capped peaks of old Mt. Shasta frowning down upon the little Indian village at its base, wild wood and shagged undergrowth hid from view the glories of the outer world, Black Bear and his squaw Red Bird disagree over the drinking of rum and the squaw is wounded when she tries to destroy the bottle. An old trapper hearing the shot, runs to the spot from which the sound came, finds Red Bird wounded and carries her off to the army post, where the kind old Colonel Beverly and his daughter order her cared for, and she is finally nursed back to life and becomes very friendly to the Colonel and devoted to his daughter. One day the Colonel receives a letter stating that his son, who is attached to another post under Colonel Fremont, is seriously ill and that in his delirium he calls for his sister, asking that she be sent as soon as possible. The old trapper offers to guide her there, and Red Bird begs to accompany them and is allowed to do so. The start is made on horseback, riding through the forest. Indians are seen following them. Black Bear has started an uprising for revenge. While the trapper swims across the lake for a canoe to get the girls across the Colonel's daughter is carried away and the guide captured. The faithful Red Bird escapes and steals into the Indian village at night and releases the guide, who effects also the escape of the Colonel's daughter, making a hasty retreat in the little boat at hand. They are followed by the irate Indians, and finally, almost exhausted, reach the desert plains, only to find flames sweeping everything before. Famished for want of water and worn from fatigue Red Bird dies and leaves old Joe the trapper and Helen to push on alone to the post. After many days of weary travel they reach the post. Fremont rescues and cares for them and the son survives to see his sister and dies in her arms.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
