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A strongly tragic picture with good characterization. The Flying A people are pulling a strong oar in the photoplay business with these tragic pictures of human lives in the rough. There is a breath of surrounding wilderness in them. They show the forces that made the conquest of the American. Southwest possible, choosing moments when the energy was turned inward to self-destruction. They are vivid presentations. They, at their best, are like flashes of electric fire. The storm is clearing the atmosphere and they open at the moment when the flame is about to strike. The best of them even may not be, surely are not, the greatest American pictures; but they are truly and thoroughly American pioneer pictures. They picture us. No one in this country could rightly be ashamed of what they show, very few of us would be. We are not a nation of mollycoddles. Some of us are as thoroughly bad as men have ever been and some of us are as thoroughly good. In these pictures the good triumphs. In real life it doesn't always; but we, as a nation, like to have it so, will have it so if possible. We are still a fighting people. We are not yet ready to put up. with evil, just because it is. - The Moving Picture World, August 31, 1912