Trails of Adventure

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California mine-owner Jim Gordon and his wife drive to New York City to attend the graduation of their daughter, Jane. On the way back, Gordon visits Washington D. C. to check mining claims and discovers an un-filed and un-mined parcel of land next to his Mojave properties. Meanwhile, his mine superintendent, Ace Gordon, with the aid of a crooked lawyer, Fred Kane, is busily swindling his employer. While traveling across the desert,Bill Merritt,a young prospector, rescues Jane from a runaway car,and he is invited to visit the Gordon's at their hotel. He falls in love with Jane, and later learns of the complicity between Carter and Kane to ruin her father.