M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.

Mary Pickford
as Melissa 'M'liss' Smith

Theodore Roberts
as John Benson 'Bummer' Smith

Thomas Meighan
as Charles Gray

Tully Marshall
as Judge Joshua McSnagley

Charles Ogle
as Yuba Bill

Monte Blue
as Mexican Joe Dominguez

Winifred Greenwood
as Clara Peterson

Helen Kelly
as Clytemnestra Veronica McSnagley

Val Paul
as Jim Peterson

William H. Brown
as Sheriff Sandy Waddles