The Man from Nowhere (1915)

In Snake River Buck Farley breaks up a fight staged by crooked Chicago Saloon owner Johnson who setup alcoholic Jake Frazer as the towns sheriff as a joke Johnson pretends to have saved Bucks life when in reality he was planning on shooting him which indentures Buck to Johnson and Buck becoming his deputy Buck also starts to have feelings for Jakes daughter Emma who has also rebuffed the advances of Johnson Johnson uses a ruse to get Buck searching for some allegedly stolen horses in the desert but Buck forces Johnson to accompany him after he realizes that Johnson is not on the up and up and also has designs on Emma