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The Ghost Wagon (1915)
Short | Short, Western

The Ghost Wagon (1915)

Short | Short, Western

Bad Pete, who passes the cabin in the mountains wherein live Bara and Old Fleming, determines to stop for food. Bara objects, but Old Fleming invites him in. When Old Fleming leaves the room for a moment, Bad Pete makes advances to Bara, ...See moreBad Pete, who passes the cabin in the mountains wherein live Bara and Old Fleming, determines to stop for food. Bara objects, but Old Fleming invites him in. When Old Fleming leaves the room for a moment, Bad Pete makes advances to Bara, who stabs him with a table knife. Pete leaves upon Fleming's return and goes to the settlement of Red Wolf, where he meets Tom and Jeff, who buy him a drink or two and tell him of a deserted silver mine. As Bara is returning that night from a tramp through the woods, she passes the mine, and hearing voices inside, enters. She is driving the men, Pete, Tom and Jeff, out when Fleming, awakened from his doze by the noise approaches with a gun. He is knocked motionless by Tom. Pete rejoins the camp of the Yaquis while Tom and Pete start for the settlement. On the way they are horrified, for they see "The Ghost Wagon." Paralyzed with fright, Tom and Jeff rush to the saloon and tell the bartender, who says that what they saw is a sure sign of death. Tom and Jeff think of Fleming's death, but say nothing. A month elapses and the beautiful offices of Fairchild and Gould, Silver Mine Investment Company, are shown. Young David Fairchild, just returned from college, informs his indulgent father he is anxious to get to work. Tom and Jeff are shown in, and although the elder Fairchild does not know the men, he listens to their proposition. They show him specimens of silver they had taken from the mine in the mountain and say that they will give him a half interest in the mine if he will work it. David is interested and asks to go with the men and investigate the matter. His father consents. Later, David arrives in Red Wolf, and is shown to a shabby bedroom over the saloon. He determines to go out and explore for himself, not seeing Tom and Jeff in sight. He comes upon Bara seated beside Old Fleming's grave. David inquires about the grave. Bara tells him that it is the grave of the only father and mother she has ever known. Drawn to him, she tells him of her parents coming there in a prairie schooner. Bara's father drives while her mother holds Bara, as a baby in her arms. Old Fleming and others are on horseback. They are attacked by a band of Yaquis and all are killed but Old Fleming and Bara. Bara ends up by telling him there is a story that "The Ghost Wagon" still runs in the mountains. David reaches for her hand as Jeff, Tom and Pete come in sight. When Bara sees David talk to the men she turns on him in a fury, saying he too is one of their breed. She rushes out and Pete, unnoticed, follows her. He attacks the girl and David seeing him starts after him. Bara escapes and David and Pete have a fight in which Pete is beaten, That night Pete, half drunk with "fire water," incites the Yaquis, who have also shared the, whiskey, to a raid on the settlement. David, watching from his bedroom window, thinks of Bara, and determines to rescue her. He grabs his gun and jumps from the window, making his way cautiously along the buildings. Pete, bent on murder, finds David's bedroom deserted and calls his men to follow him. David, meanwhile, attacks a lone Indian on the outskirts of the settlement, takes his horse and rides toward Bara's shack, Pete following closely with the drunken Yaquis. David arrives at the shack and Bara attempts to repulse him. David picks her up and carries her out to his horse and rides away. After a chase, David and Bara seek safety behind a rock near the roadside. Their guns are empty and, knowing death is inevitable, they cling to one another. The Yaquis come up and surround the two. Pete dismounts and crawls toward them. The posse of Red Wolf are seen in the distance. Pete determines to kill Bara and David. As he raises his gun "The Ghost Wagon" is seen speeding by, and a spurt of flame comes from old Fleming's upraised gun. Pete falls dead, and when the amazed Bara and David see the dead man. Bara says her father's spirit has saved them. Meanwhile the posse, coming up, gives chase to the Yaquis and captures and kills them. Bara and David, in each other's arms, turn and see "The Ghost Wagon" going across the mountain trail. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Edythe Sterling Bara Bara See fewer	The Further Adventures of Stingaree (1917)
Sherman Bainbridge David Fairchild David Fairchild See fewer	The Raid of the Human Tigers (1913)
Albert Edmondson Actor Actor See fewer	Foolish Wives (1922)
Warren Ellsworth Actor Actor See fewer	The Sheriff of Plumas (1916)
Rex De Rosselli Actor Actor See fewer	Rescued by Wireless (1914)
Herman Ullmer Actor Actor See fewer	The Making of Crooks (1915)