Daniel Robin has become mixed up with a band of criminals known as "the 13," and is shot when he refuses to do their bidding. His daughter Ruth, brought home from boarding school, reaches his bedside before he expires. He tells her that she will be given thirteen keys. Instructions will be provided...
A group of exhausted emigrants are lost, and are attacked by Indians and Mexicans. With the help of an Indian girl, they are discovered by the inhabitants of a neighbouring town.