Wild thirteen-year-old Mavis Hawn of the Kentucky hills practices sharpshooting with her chum, Jason Honeycutt, to avenge the death of her father, shot by an unknown man. When city capitalists, assisted by Jason's stepfather, try to rob Mavis' mother and others of their coal-rich lands, Mavis joins the Night Riders to drive the outsiders away. Honeycutt accuses Mavis of murdering the leader, but her case is dismissed when the jury and some of the spectators all plead guilty to the crime. After Honeycutt marries Mavis' mother, Mavis and Jason leave the hills to be educated. Mavis goes with a coal magnate whose son tries to court her, while Jason goes to the city where he has the chance to marry a cultured city girl. After six years, they return and overhear Mavis' mother accuse Honeycutt of killing Mavis' father. After they rescue her from Honeycutt's brutal attack by simultaneously shooting him, their reunion turns to love.