Romeo and Juliet type story loosely based upon the famed Hatfield/McCoy feud.

Mary Gibbs, the daughter of a Kentucky mountaineer, falls in love with Bobby Dawson, son of the leader of a clan with whom Gibbs is in dispute regarding the boundary of his land. During the several encounters between the two warring factions, a member of one of the clans is killed, which starts a battle royal between the two families. Mary Gibbs and her father are attacked by their enemies and are driven into their home, which they barricade and continue to fight. Mary, realizing that her lover is among those in the attacking party, and fearing that he may be killed, manages to escape from her house, and after gaining the shelter of the woods, attracts his attention, and together they flee mounted upon his horse. The other members of his band, seeing what has happened, follow in hot pursuit. The lovers urge their horse to full speed to take a road which leads directly to a precipitous cliff which drops sheer into the river. Before realizing the danger ahead they are upon it, and the horse in the mad race for life is unable to stop in time, dashes madly from the cliff into space. Horse and riders fall into the waters below and providentially are uninjured and able to swim to safety on the opposite shore, for their pursuers realizing that they have gone over the cliff have given them up for lost. Old man Gibbs has seen the daring feat, and admiring such great courage and fortitude, prevents his son, the girl's brother, from sending a death messenger from his rifle to the heart of young Bob. Later, wandering through the woods, the boy and girl meet the old man and his son, and the last of the Dawsons becomes the accepted husband of Mary.—Moving Picture World synopsis