M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
Mary Pickford
as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith
Theodore Roberts
as John Benson 'Bummer' Smith
Thomas Meighan
as Charles Gray
Tully Marshall
as Judge Joshua McSnagley
Charles Ogle
as Yuba Bill
Monte Blue
as Mexican Joe Dominguez
Winifred Greenwood
as Clara Peterson
Helen Kelly
as Clytemnestra Veronica McSnagley
Val Paul
as Jim Peterson
William H. Brown
as Sheriff Sandy Waddles
John Burton
as Parson Bean
Charles A. Post
as Butch Saunders
