Alaska is swept by a gold rush. In an instant, fortunes are made—and then lost across the card tables. Gunshots ring out. Up from the surface rises the filthiest scum—adventurers of every sort, prostitutes, saloon singers, owners of taverns and brothels. Frona Wells, the daughter of the owner of a local steamboat company, returned to her father after a long period of study and doesn’t recognize her native Alaska at first; at the beginning she watches the changes with horror. But gradually, the whirlwind of dangerous gold-rush adventures pulls her in too. What’s more, two very striking men fall in love with Frona at the same time…