Billy Milford, Harvard graduate, goes west to seek his fortune. In Addertown he secures a position as stationmaster of the L. & R. Railroad, but is forced out because of his drinking habits. He accidentally meets Gunhild, an emigrant Norwegian girl, as she arrives in Addertown to take up her home with Jan Hagsberg, the town's saloonkeeper. Seeking revenge on the railroad, Milford joins Jim Dorsey in a scheme to hold up the road's paymaster on his way to pay the employees of the company's mine.
George Siegmann
Sheriff DickTom Wilson
Jim Dorsey, Milford's PalWallace Reid
Billy Milford aka Hell-in-the MudJosephine Crowell
Mrs. Stuvic, an Illinois MatronSeena Owen
Gunhild, a Norwegian GirlFred Gamble
The Railroad SuperintendentChris Lynton
Professor EmersonWilliam H. Brown
Jan Hagnerg, Gunhild's Uncle