The guns don't really grin in this energetic western, though hero Jack Hoxie occasionally breaks out in a toothy smile. Early in the picture, Hoxie is mistaken for a bandit, impeding his search for the author of a book which is somehow important within the context of the story. Said author turns out to be a crusading newspaperman, whose efforts to bring law and order to his community are stymied by the local criminal element. Hoxie takes over operation of the newspaper himself; each and every week, our hero prints the name of a local miscreant, warning him to leave town or else. Once the territory has been cleared of all its varmints and cutthroats, Hoxie wins the girl (Ena Gregory) -- though it is never made clear why he was searching for the editor in the first place. Inasmuch as star Jack Hoxie could neither read nor write (or so it has been reported), the scenes in which he approvingly skims through his weekly newspaper constitute some of his best acting.
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