The Rustlers (1910)
On a big ranch in the west, where great bands of horses roam the foothills, where men are wont to regard life from a far different viewpoint than their cousins of the east, old Jim Canby had brought up his family. The eldest sister and brother were sent away to a city school and given an education. In the girl the experience is for good, but not so the boy. He has contracted expensive habits and his demand for money is insatiable. The opening of the story shows the boy on his yearly visit to the ranch. Falling in with a rough crowd of punchers he is soon started on a career of reckless gambling and brawling. Operating in the vicinity is a band of horse rustlers whom the ranch owners are trying to run down and exterminate. Bob is not bad at heart, but finding himself deprived of money with which to gamble, he is easily persuaded to join forces with this desperate gang. Hardly realizing the enormity of his crime, after a particularly successful raid, he is engaged with his companions in his usual pastime of gambling, when the gang is suddenly surrounded by a posse and quickly captured. Realizing for the first time his awful position, he makes a dash for liberty, in which he is desperately wounded. The final scene at home and the grief of his stricken parents, ends this story.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
