The story of Mary Helen Crosby, who -- in the company of Gen. John Bidwell, custodian of the papers admitting California to the Union -- concealed the papers in her umbrella to ensure their safe arrival at San Francisco.
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A man arrives in Rawhide, Nev., and spends his last $10 on a town lot and the lot winds up being a gold mine.
A young wife finds it difficult to adjust to life on the prairie after she and her Mormon husband move away from Salt Lake City, and she takes drastic measures to find relief.
Two men running from a posse find a rich silver deposit, which means they must find a way to stake their claim without going to jail.
Claim jumper Jennie attempts to jump the mining claim of Buck Hansen near Rhyolite, Nevada, and ends up rescuing Buck when he gets lost in Death Valley.
A young man is adopted by a Spanish nobleman and is raised as his son and heir, but he rebels and becomes a Franciscan monk on his way to the San Gabriel Mission he gets lost and ends up in Death Valley.
A young man who was reared as an Indian after the death of his parents in Death Valley is obliged to prove his identity in order to marry the white girl he loves.
The story of Mary Helen Crosby, who -- in the company of Gen. John Bidwell, custodian of the papers admitting California to the Union -- concealed the papers in her umbrella to ensure their safe arrival at San Francisco.
A young widow from the east offers serious competition to the proprietor of a Nevada café when she opens a rival restaurant and discovers gold on property that she purchased from him.
After being robbed of a large sum of money, an embittered prospector denies his wife a purple silk dress that has become a symbol of beauty in her life.
A quiet and retiring dressmaker for the dance-hall girls in a western mining camp is discovered to be Tiger Lil, a former dance-hall queen from Virginia City.
A Bostonian who has married a local girl in a desert mining town refuses to invite the townspeople into his home on his wedding night, thereby instigating a three-day chivaree.
A hard-rock miner and champion driller is encouraged by a dance-hall girl to study law after he loses an arm in a shooting fracas.
Mamie, the grocer's daughter, plans to marry the suitor who corners the local egg market.
Amos, intent on becoming a landowner so he can marry his love Maggie, searches for a black bull to trade for his friend's property.
There's more than gold in store for prim Wilhelmina Vail when she tackles a claim in rugged Utah territory.
Blue Feather pursues Bishop Lamy and Tom Forbes after his sister converts to Christianity the bishop helps a man stricken with cholera, giving Tom a lesson on faith.
Postal inspector Wesley Hull is determined to discover how postmaster Jack Reardon can sell so many stamps in such a small town.
Maso and Okei, tea growers in Gold Hills, encounter both friendship and racism from the locals a worsening drought has some looking for a scapegoat and local bully Dan leads a mob to drive their Japanese neighbors out.
L. Frank Baum struggles with his newspaper business, preferring to tell fantasy stories to local children about colorful characters from a land called Oz.
Wagon master Caleb must bring his wayward son, Johnny, to justice after the boy goes too far.
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