Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

A ranch manager falls in love with a banker’s daughter, but after a quarrel with the girl’s parents, flee across the border into Mexico.

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron’s wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller’s shop.