David Howitt, a stranger, comes among the mountain folk of the Missouri hills and, taken in by an Ozark family, becomes known as The Shepherd because of his gentle and kindly ways. Years earlier, his son betrayed a mountaineer's daughter, and The Shepherd hopes to atone for his error. When a continued drought threatens the people with starvation and ruin, they lose faith in the "miracle man" and mock him, though he begs them to keep the faith.
Alec B. Francis
as David Howitt, The Shepherd
Molly O'Day
as Sammy Lane
John Boles
as Young Matt
Matthew Betz
as Wash Gibbs
Romaine Fielding
as Old Matt
Otis Harlan
as By Thunder
Joseph Bennett
as Ollie
Maurice Murphy
as Little Pete
Edythe Chapman
as Aunt Mollie
Carl Stockdale
as Jim Lane
Ena Gregory
as Maggie
John Westwood
as The Artist
