Ruth Findlay

An old miner is ambushed by outlaws trying to steal the $10,000 he is carrying to start up a new mine. A passing cowboy comes to the miner's aid, but winds up getting blamed for the attack.

A gang of robbers steals the deed to the Pecos Ranch and kill the family. The young son escapes, and years later he returns to the ranch to find the killers and reclaim his property.

Jim Cole, heir to a mining operation, takes over the mine, which is suffering from unexplained low production, and is facing a strike by the miners. Jim will soon loose the mine if production doesn't increase and the sabotage continues. Mary Norsen, office-secretary, accidentally learns of a plot by Fred Johnson to wreck the mine and force Cole to sell his coal-mine. She and her brother, Joe, join Cole in his fight to stop Johnson.

Cowboy infiltrates an outlaw gang to expose their rackets, but after he's ordered to kidnap a young girl, the gang finds out who he really is.

In early spring of 1833, the smoldering resentment of American settlers in Texas against their oppression by Mexico dictator General Santa Anna/Ana coming to a head. When a decree is issued that no more Americans may enter Texas, William H. Wharton, fiery head of a faction determined on independence or nothing, warns Stephen F. Austin that the time for half-measures is past. Austin, responsible for bringing the Americans to Texas as colonists, reminds Wharton that a settler's revolt against Mexico would dishonor his name and the arrangements he had with the Mexican government. He gets the "Whartonites" to agree to a general convention of all colonists. Almerian Dickinson, biggest land owner in the settlement of Gonzales, deeply in love with his wife Anne, warns Wharton that a bloody revolt would endanger every wife and mother in the colony. He proposes they send Austin to Mexico City to ask Santa Anna to grant Texans a voice in their own government.

Mary Haines est l’épouse exemplaire d’un homme d’affaires Stephen Haines et mère d’une petite fille. Elle est entourée d’amies plutôt cancanières, spécialement Sylvia Fowler qui sait quelque chose que Mary ignore. Stephen a une liaison avec Crystal Allen, une vendeuse arriviste. Grâce « aux bons soins » de Sylvia, Mary découvre la vérité. Après une forte confrontation avec Crystal, et poussée par Sylvia, Mary part à Reno pour y obtenir rapidement le divorce.

Butch Cooper, chef d'un gang de hors-la-loi qui a dévalisé un train, a été emprisonné. Se faisant passer pour un mauvais garçon appâté par le butin, l'agent fédéral Smitty l'aide à s'évader et l'accompagne dans l'Utah. Mais arrivé à l'endroit ou le butin a été enterré, la cache est vide.

A wild college student gets in fights, steals cars, is caught by the police and finally expelled from college. Later on, though, he comes to the aid of a kidnapped heiress.

Le « Gargouille » mal et masqué est en train de saboter toutes les installations industrielles de l'Amérique. Il est à l'araignée pour sauver le pays.