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The Man from Bitter Roots Synopsis

Bruce Burt and his partner Slim Naudain prospect for gold. When Slim picks a fight with Bruce, Bruce kills him in self-defense. Bruce then discovers Slim has a sister, and decides to find her and give her half of his own gold dust in restitution. Before he can, he meets Victor Sprudell, who has been caught in a blizzard during a hunting trip. Bruce offers to find Sprudell's cook, who was left ill in a cabin. Before he leaves, Bruce tells Sprudell about Slim's sister and his plan to give her the gold dust. When Bruce does not return, Sprudell heads home to Indiana, where he opens the Bitter Root Mining Company. A reporter named Helen Dunbar is sent to interview him. Sprudell tells some of his story involving Bruce, and Helen realizes that Slim was her half-brother. Sprudell gives Helen $500, telling her that was what her brother left. Bruce returns and obtains water rights to the Company, in an attempt to control Sprudell. When Helen learns the truth about Sprudell, she and Bruce go into business together. But Bruce's water plant burns down, and one of Bruce's workmen confesses that Sprudell was behind it. Helen approaches Bruce's estranged father, who is a wealthy rancher. Together, they restore what rightfully belonged to Bruce.

The Only Son Synopsis

Thomas Brainerd, Sr., as a prospector, is a dutiful and loving husband and father. Two children, Gertrude and Thomas, Jr., are born while the Brainerds live in a log cabin in the mountains. Brainerd strikes gold, goes to New York, where he becomes a financial power. He neglects his wife, devotes every moment of his time to his growing industries, simply supplies funds to his family, and his wife, alone and melancholy, is fascinated by an artist and consents to "sit" for a painting. Feeling her neglect keenly, Mrs. Brainerd becomes a victim to the wiles of the artist, who, however, is killed by the husband of a former victim before the affair has progressed too far. Brainerd, learning of his wife's affair with the artist, orders her from the house. Thomas, Jr. sides with and accompanies his mother. Heretofore a worthless spendthrift, Thomas now becomes ambitious and joins interest with a penniless inventor, goes west, establishes a factory, makes a go of it, sells out to his father at an enormous advance, convinces his father that his mother is innocent and, as he transfers the invention to his father's firm, sees his mother in his father's arms, which example he immediately follows by proposing to the girl he has always loved.