When Alex Todd discovers there's money to be made delivering the mail, he starts a subscription mail service and takes letters to the gold camps for miners starving for news from home.
Three telegraph workers fall for a dance hall queen.
A lady wishes to court a shy but highly skilled logroller.
The daughter of a California ranch owner discovers a lost fortune after his death.
New sheriff Pat Garrett embarks on a mission to capture the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid.
U.S. settlers arrive in Mexican-controlled California and clash with the resident Hispanic families.
A woman is not pleased by the attentions of a drunk, but she's even less happy when Faro Bill kills the man.
A San Francisco merchant works to corner the market on rice when he hears that China's about to ban the export of the staple.
A detective disguises himself as a Mexican to clear himself of a robbery charge.
A noted prosecutor faces a young associate defending a man accused of murder.
A man sells snow to pioneers in Sacramento, Calif.
Culture comes to a mining town with the arrival of a piano, but the problem is finding someone who can play it.
A counterfeiter making a getaway joins a wagon train of Mormons headed to Salt Lake City.
A homely miner tries to win a pretty girl's heart.
Two prospectors discover a fabulous diamond mine but greed interferes with their plans.
A Spanish family claims ownership of a piece of land but they don't have the deed.
The story of Lt. Jessie Lee Reno, for whom the city of Reno was named.
The romance of young lovers is threatened by their feuding families.
A politician tries to get Columbia picked as California's capital city.
A member of the Laguna tribe risks open conflict by refusing to return a venerated portrait borrowed from neighboring braves after it appears to bring desperately needed rain.