- Ann reluctantly agrees to leave her beloved New York City to accompany her sick brother on a trip out West, which he must take for his health. There she meets hunky ranch foreman Bob Raymond. He's interested in her, but she feels so lost outside of New York that she rebuffs his advances. However, the more she gets to know him, the more she begins to rethink her attitude--although she still cant wait to get back to New York. Bob has his own ideas about that.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- "But, Sis, father gave you the name of Hesper in honor of these Hesperean Mountains." "Oh, call me Ann and let me forget these pesky mountains and everything connected with them." This is jut one of many similar conversations between Louis Rupert and his sister, whom we will call Ann. Since being forced, by the trend of circumstances, to leave her home in the east and come west with Louis, Ann had plainly shown her disapproval of the country, its customs and its rough men, who, in her mind, fell far below the cultured men of the east. When Raymond, foreman at the ranch where she is stopping, is shot. Ann nurses him back to health, but after his recovery she treats him coldly. Seeing that his presence is distasteful to her, Raymond leaves to form a partnership with Kelly, an old miner, and try his luck at prospecting in Sky Town. Later, Ann goes to the same town in search of Louis, who followed the foreman. She begins to admire Raymond's character, but conceals her admiration, and when he ventures to proposed marriage, refuses him. The miners, under the leadership of Jack Munro, a reckless character, from a union and when the mine owners refuse to accede to their demands, go out on strike. On seeing Ann, Munro conceives a strong regard for her, and Ann is attracted to him. When she learns his true character, her opinion of western men suffers another severe jolt, and she refuses to associate with him. Raymond, not in sympathy with the cause of the miners, refuses to join them, and his efforts to bring about arbitration between the miners and the owners are discouraged. After having attempted to arrest the ringleaders of the disturbance and having failed, the sheriff returns to town and starts organizing a posse to protect the mine owners' interest. The strike is rapidly coming to a head, and when Raymond reiterates his refusal to join the strikers, they show their indignation by blowing up his shaft house, thus leaving him almost bankrupt. This comes at a time when he can least stand the loss, as he has just struck "pay dirt." Expectant of the arrival of the posse, Munro, a former West Point man, is constantly drilling the men, and gradually whipping them into some semblance of order. When the posse finally starts for Sky Town, the miners are well trained and equipped and able to withstand an attack from a formidable army. Raymond sees what tragic results a meeting of the two factions would produce, but is unable to prevent the battle, until Ann suggests kidnapping the leader, knowing that they will not continue without him. This Raymond and Kelly set out to do, after sending a hurry call to the Governor for the militia. Munro is subdued and thrown into an empty freight care, from which he manages to escape after some time, and rejoin his forces. At their head once more, Munro rallies his men, but just as the two armies are clashing, the troops are seen approaching and the terrified miners disperse. Disgusted with them, Munro, in a drunken fury, determines to fight them single-handed, and meets his death bravely facing a hail of bullets from the posse. Louise gives Raymond enough money to start anew, and later when he proposes to her she accepts on condition that he call her Hesper instead of Ann.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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