Across the Plains (1911)

Jennie Lee and her father are on their way to Golden California from a little Kansas farm traveling in a prairie schooner At the last settlement visited by the two the old man who has a weakness for drink purchases several bottles of whiskey which he begins drinking when they have made camp for the night A lone cowboy calls upon them and finds the old man in a jovial mood and cautions him to beware of the hostile tribe of Indians through whose country they are now traveling