After a quarrel with his wife, Mary, Bob Adams leaves her, taking with him their little girl, Ethel. In order to conceal their identity, he dresses the girl in boy's clothing. Bob and Ethel finally drift west, the girl still passing as a boy.
Year - 1911
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In the film, there is a shot of two apparent men being flirting and being somewhat physically intimate. In Laura Horak's "Girls Will Be Boys," she writes that "... relationships between men and disguised girls made the possibilities for same-sex romance on the range visible."
There's a moment just before they kiss when the film abruptly cuts and returns to see the two "men" looking around guiltily, suggesting a censor-worthy line had been crossed.
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