The Buckskin Coat
Directed by George MelfordJoe, a dissolute settler, comes to the little church where Ed and Nell are being married. He realizes that Ed has won a prize which he has lost through his profligate habits. He tramps through the woods until he reaches the Indian camp. The unhappy man casts his lot with the Indians. He spurns the love of Red Wing and assumes a mantle of impregnable silence. One day Joe passes the cabin where Ed and Nell have their home. The renegade watches the young woman and determines upon revenge. A few days later, while Ed is at work in the woods, the renegade sees the young settler's buckskin coat on the ground. He appropriates the coat, and after mutilating it with his knife, takes it to the cabin, where he informs Nell that her husband has been injured. Through this subterfuge Nell is led to the Indian camp, where Joe disillusions her and declares that she will never return to her husband. Red Wing hastens to the village and informs Ed, who secures a number of settlers and succeeds in liberating his wife.
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