In China, before leaving for America, Charlie Lee promises that he will never dishonour his family by cutting his pigtail. Later, as a laundryman in a California mining town, Charlie is tormented by local men but is finally befriended by a young woman and her cowboy sweetheart. One of Charlie’s tormentors is a well-dressed idler and, secretly, a bandit who robs the mail. The cowboy and the bandit become rivals for the girl’s affections. Suspicious of the bandit, Charlie follows him, observes him robbing a mail-carrier, and contrives to capture him, cutting off his pigtail to bind the bandit. Rewarded for the bandit’s capture, but disgraced in his own eyes for dishonouring his family, Charlie gives the cash reward to the young couple and surreptitiously leaves Golden Gulch.
Anthony O'Sullivan
as Charley Lee
W. Chrystie Miller
as Charley's Friend
Francis J. Grandon
as Charley's Friend
Gertrude Robinson
as Miss Dean
Dell Henderson
as Gentleman Jim Dandy
Edward Dillon
as The Mail Carrier
Kate Bruce
as Extra
Alfred Paget
as Cowboy
Mary Pickford
as
Charles West
as Bud Miller
William J. Butler
as Cowboy
John T. Dillon
as Cowboy
