A trapper, badly injured, falls in love with the Indian girl who nurses him back to health, marries her and they have a child. While he is away on a long hunting trip his wife dies and the child is taken care of by friends. On the trapper's return he finds a telegram awaiting him back east to the bedside of his dying mother. Arriving there he finds his mother in the last throes of a long Illness and agrees to her last request that he marry her ward. The marriage, however, is unhappy and eventually they separate, he going back to his child in the west. His second wife, ultimately realizing the sterling worth of her husband, joins him at Rainbow Lodge and a reconciliation takes place.
