A 15-chapter Western serial. The serial involves the mystery of the murder of William Stillman (Wells) and the finding of the heir to his fortune. Silent Joe (Farnum) arrives in an effort to discover the murderer and prove that he is the true heir. He and the heroine Lou (Anderson) have their adventures in the mountainous terrain with its "vanishing trails." They are aided by The Shadow (Orlamond), a demented scientist with his trained dog, and several remarkable, death-dealing inventions.

A silent film directed by Herbert Brenon also known as "The Stronger Passion".
A short silent western produced by Gaston Mèliès in San Antonio.
In the farewell beams of evening the pioneer with his wife and child stop the prairie-schooner and s...
Tony Valero, a lusty young vaquero, is enamored of Clarita Montes, whose father is fairly well off, ...
The cowboys and gamblers of Curzon are very much interested in a placard which appears one day in th...
Full of booze, bluster, and fight "Black Pete," a big "bad man" of the wild west comes from the loca...
A short silent film produced by Gaston Mèliès in San Antonio.
In the mountain wilds of Tennessee there is no end to the manufacture of moonshine whiskey. Whole fa...
Nora, who is the president of the Bachelor's Club, receives a letter announcing the death of her unc...
Denton, a young easterner, arrives in the gold-fields, looks about for a "find" and a partner. Enter...
A short silent film produced by Gaston Mèliès in San Antonio.
If John was half the man that Molly is, she and her father would have been a great deal better off. ...
From force of habit, some might call him a "Greaser," true, he is a Mexicano; he is no more, a man o...
Bill Sanders, sheriff of Alkali County, gets a warrant for Red Rube, the tough. He gives it to his d...
Mary is only the assistant housekeeper of the ranch, but she has a heart as big and faithful as a qu...
Old Watson the prospector is the proud owner of a mine and a daughter, Ruth, but when Jack Mason, th...

Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man...
A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches f...