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Heart of Juanita Synopsis

In an early California settlement, Juanita, a dance hall queen of Castilian ancestry, knifes her lover, Jim Brandt, the dance hall owner, when she catches him embracing a new dancer. She hides in the cabin of hermit trapper Calvert and falls in love with him, but Calvert loves the parson's daughter Irene. After Juanita proves to Calvert that Irene and Sheriff Tanner are about to be engaged, Calvert reproaches Irene. Insulted, she tells Brandt where Juanita is, and tells Tanner that Calvert attacked her. Tanner rides to Calvert's cabin with a posse just after Calvert has knocked Brandt out. While Juanita holds the posse back with a rifle, Tanner fights a knife duel with Calvert until he discovers from Calvert's locket that Calvert is really his son. Because of her crime, Juanita is taken to Mexico, where Calvert, now in love, joins her.

Just Squaw Synopsis

A Native American woman is embittered after being abandoned by her white husband, Jimmy Dorr. Years later, the dying woman asks her half-Indian son never to tell his sister, Fawn, that her birth mother was also white. When Fawn falls in love with a white stranger, she is warned by her brother, now a fugitive known as the Phantom, not to marry. The stranger identifies himself as the son of the murdered Sheriff Hollister and leads a posse to the Phantom's cave, believing he killed a man during a stagecoach robbery. In reality, the guilty party is Snake Le Gal, who abducted Fawn as a child and delivered her to the Indian village. Snake also robbed the stagecoach, and murdered Sheriff Hollister years earlier. His cohort, Romney, is stabbed trying to rescue Fawn from the lecherous Snake, but lives long enough to stop the Phantom's lynching. The Phantom then races to Snake's cabin and Jimmy shoots the outlaw. With his dying breath, Snake reveals the truth about Fawn's parentage, enabling her to marry young Hollister.