A strong picture of an Indian chief's justice. The man who paid was a white medical doctor and the price of his drunkenness was death, the death of the chief's sick daughter, and the price of his greed was death, his own death by thirst. The Indians paid the fee he demanded, as much gold as he could carry but they forced him to find his own way across the desert with his load. Such a situation as this stirs the spectator and fills him with a sense of the bigness and nobility of human life. Everything that happens in this picture seems truthful, adequate and full of justice. It is a very commendable picture. Besides the strength of its situation, we find the picture well conducted; the little things ring true. It is also very well acted. The producer has chosen his scenes, whether wide views, or close-by sketches full of detail, with much skill. One or two seem truly wild, as for instance does one sketch, the group of Indian ponies on a rocky slope; it brings them to us in so marvelously vivid a way. It's a good picture. - The Moving Picture World, May 18, 1912
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