Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.
as Scattergood Baines
as Helen Parker
as Johnny Bones
as Pliny Pickett
as Mirandy Baines
as Hipp
as Clara Potts
as Ed Potts
as Gertrude Brown
as Keith
as Crane
as McKettrick
as Young Hipp
as Jim Barton
as Lafe Hopper (uncredited)
as Townsman (uncredited)
