Quote:
"When the moment arrives [in The Grub-Stake] when Faith finds love in the wilderness, it is with a young man of her own age who seems to have skills that equal hers. Unlike the husbands of Back to God's Country and Something New (and, tellingly, [Nell Shipman's] partner Bert Van Tuyle), who are injured or fall ill in the moments of greatest tension, Jeb manages just fine. He finds Faith in the wilderness and reunites her with her father, proving himself to be an appropriate mate in the egalitarian partnership of modern marriage. As a landscape painter, he shares Faith's sensitivity to the beauties of nature. Their suitability for each other is depicted also in parallel intercut scenes of fights: as Jeb holds off the villain's gang outside, Faith struggles tooth and nail with Leroy inside the cabin."
-- Kay Armatage

Source:
Armatage, Kay. The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. (p. 225)