- When socialite Ethel Wyndham turns down his marriage proposal because of his working-class status, Jim Carew leaves civilization and goes prospecting in the Yukon. While striking it rich in Alaska, he begins a romance with Little Snowbird, but before settling down with her, he decides to take one last look at life in the big city, and so he goes to New York. At a restaurant there, he sees Ethel, and immediately tells her of his success and proposes once again. Ethel is tempted to accept him until Thomas Martin, who has involved her in a blackmail operation, threatens to expose her if she marries Jim. Once again broken-hearted, Jim returns to Little Snowbird, only to find that, believing that he would never return, she committed suicide. Before dying, however, she gave birth to their daughter, to whom Jim devotes the rest of his life.—Pamela Short
- Jim Carew, a sturdy lighthouse keeper, saves the life of Ethel Wyndham, a young society woman, whose boat crashes upon the rocks near his post. Soon after her recovery she is returned to the mainland, and to her friends, and Carew, disconsolate because of his unrequited love for the girl, gives up his position in the lighthouse. In his subsequent wanderings, he becomes possessed of the gold fever, and joins a prospecting party in a rush to the Yukon. In the Yukon, Carew is successful from the start. He strikes a big claim, and soon amasses a fortune. On the last night of his first week in the Yukon Carew joins a gang of miners celebrating in the principal saloon. Little Snowbird, a beautiful, young Indian girl strolls into the place, and immediately catches Carew's fancy. Crazy Snake, one of the miners, who is known for his fearlessness and brawn, proposes that the miners all cut the cards for the girl, the holder of the highest card to claim her as his own. Carew resents this proposal, and he and Crazy Snake come to blows. Carew heats the bully in the encounter, and is hailed as the hero of the camp. Little Snowbird's heart goes out to Carew, and surreptitiously, she follows him wherever he goes. One night he falls in a big snowstorm, and it is Snowbird who finds him and carries him to safety. Afterward, they live together. Carew, with all the money at his command that he desires, tires of the camp life in the desolate Alaskan wastes, and pines for one more fling on the Great White Way. He arranges to go to New York tor one trip, and then return to live with Snowbird for life. Carew arrives in New York on New Year's Eve. He engages a table in Murray's restaurant, one of the smartest and gayest places in town. There he observes Ethel Wyndham at another table, and immediately joins her party. Now that he is wealthy, she is willing to listen to his renewed vows of love. She agrees to marry Carew, but her consort, Thomas Martin, a society leech and gambler, prevents her by threatening to expose her for some shady transactions they have been engaged in together. Ethel is driven to renounce Carew, who then realizes the depths to which she has descended, and he is brokenhearted. Back on the Yukon, the little Indian girl is waiting for him. She despairs of Carew ever returning, and takes her own life at her father's deathbed. Carew now remembers his Indian girl, and decides to go back to her, renouncing society as frivolous and a sham. He arrives on the Yukon on the very night that little Snowbird has passed away. But at her side in the cabin he finds a newly born babe, another Little Snowbird. During the years that follow Carew devotes himself to the daughter, and lavishes every luxury upon her, in memory of the mother.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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