The Brand of Bars Filming Locations

Tom Logan was nearing the close of his prison term. The jail door opened and closed on him; this time he was on the outside, a free man. He started out to secure employment, but at every hand he was rebuffed and turned away. He drifted west. He was given work on a ranch, and soon by honest, intelligent service was promoted to be foreman. From the first meeting between Rose, the ranchman's daughter, and Tom, there had existed a sentiment of mutual interest which ere long developed into love. But the barrier of his past forbade him to speak of love to Rose, until he had laid the secret of his life before her father. At this time Red Conway, who had been confined in the same prison as Tom, escaped. After killing a man in a gambling house he fled west and sought work at the very ranch of which Tom now had charge. Tom, not recognizing his former fellow-convict, hired him. Soon afterward Tom, unexpectedly entering a room of the ranch house, surprised Red in the act of stealing money from the ranchman's desk. The foreman snatched the money from the robber's hands and was about to give the alarm when the thief turned upon him and threatened him with exposure. While Tom hesitated his employer and Rose suddenly entered. Red at once pointed to the green bills in the foreman's hands. Deaf to all words of explanation from the accused foreman, the men made him a prisoner in a hut, with Red Conway as his jailer. Late that afternoon cowboys from all the neighboring ranches for miles around assembled at the ranch house to hold a dance. Rose, who felt too badly over the evident downfall of her lover to take part in the merrymaking, started to visit some friends a few miles across the plain. But she turned back, determining not to forsake Tom in his hour of need. She was captured by a band of Indians. Tom from his prison window saw the treacherous savages stealthily approaching the ranch house. Battering down the door, he gave the alarm to the dancing cowpunchers. They seized their arms and rushed out. After a sharp battle the redskins retreated, hotly pursued by the ranchman for several miles. As Tom turned his horse to return, he saw Rose's hat at the side of the trail. Realizing that she had fallen into the hands of the redskins he started single-handed to rescue her. After a frantic search he discovered the dusky marauders' encampment, at the foot of a steep cliff he saw his sweetheart a prisoner. Attracting her attention he lowered a rope. Rose was about to fasten herself to it, when Dawn, an Indian girl whom Tom had befriended and who was in love with him, pushed the white girl aside, and was hauled upward in her stead. Tom spurned the Indian maiden's plea of love. Peering again he saw the red fiends tying the rancher's daughter to a stake to burn her alive. He was almost in despair, when he saw the boys from his own ranch and a squadron of cavalry approaching. Hastily telling them of the girl's deadly plight, the combined forces sounded the charge. The Indians were taken completely by surprise by the onrushing horsemen. Tom saved Rose just as the flames were leaping upward about her. Red Conway had received his death-wound, but before he died he confessed that it was he who had tried to steal the money. Tom, fully vindicated, was restored to his former position, and the rancher gave him the hand of his daughter as a reward for bravery and faithful service.