Wilton Shaw, a young author, has been advised by his physician to go west for his health and the opening scenes of this picture finds him in a little town in Montana, seeking board and lodging. Jim Walker, a backwoodsman, offers him a home with him and his wife, and he accepts. Arriving at the rough hut of the Walkers, Shaw is introduced to Walker's wife.
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Gilbert M. Anderson as Walker - the Backwoodsman
Gladys Field as Mrs. Walker - the Wife
Brinsley Shaw as The Author
United States 15 July 1911
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