The Sheriff's Daughter (1910)
Sid Dalton had returned just in time to protect his angry little wife, Billie, from the embraces of Pete, the cowardly and drunken half-breed. The husband handed her his quiet, and Pete could testify that she knew full well how to wield it. This, however, was not the reason he gave the chief and his tribe for wishing to ransack the ranch, but because he had overheard Billie's father, Sheriff Colby, telling his wife and daughter that he and Sid would be away for a few days. Therefore, Pete declared, they could select an hour when the women were out and carry off everything in sight. The Indians had put their plunder in a blanket when Mrs. Colby returned. Quickly they tied her to a chair and would have then escaped had not Billie ridden up and, hearing a noise inside, armed herself with a club. Although for the moment she succeeded in stunning both Pete and another, it only served to anger the half-breed the more, so instead of tying her beside her mother, he bore her off to the camp. As they half dragged, half carried Billie past his kennel, Scout tugged madly at his chains, but it was not until the Indians had reached camp that he finally broke loose and came bounding into the tepee where they had thrown his mistress. Billie crawled out cautiously to the front of the tepee; the redskins were all busily engaged with the whiskey they had stolen, and while to affect her escape with her feet so securely bound would be well-nigh impossible, she hoped to get a message off by Scout. Tearing off a piece of her white skirt, and snatching up some charred wood from the dying campfire. Billie hastily scrawled a line for help, then tying it around the dog's neck, sent him back to the ranch. Here, although he sniffed and whined at the door, no one let him in and he was forced to set off for his master, whom he found, with the cowboys, searching for a horse thief. At first Sid paid no attention to Scout's furious barking and strange antics, until reaching down to pat the brute's head, he found Billie's message. Instantly every boy was in his saddle and galloping madly after the excited Scout. As the cowboys came tearing down upon them, the Indians turned and fled, leaving Sid's little wife to the rescuing party. Putting her aboard his horse and vaulting into the saddle behind, Sid and the sheriff made what speed they could to the ranch to release Mrs. Colby, who was so thankful to again behold her daughter alive and well that she insisted she never felt better in her life and straightforth set about preparing a feast for the delighted cowboys.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Milton J. Fahrney | Director |
| David Horsley | Producer |
