A young widow from the east offers serious competition to the proprietor of a Nevada cafe 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.
Two people set out into the desert in search of the lost "Pegleg" Mine.
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.
A young woman flirts with a ranch hand while waiting for a proposal from her beau despite her grandmother's advice she learns the hard way that granny was absolutely right.
Jess intends to marry his longtime sweetheart but thinks he needs to find some hidden gold so she will accept when a wealthy traveler from New Orleans shows up and courts her, Jess begins to realize what he really wants.
Postal officials ask Harry, a gunman, to find a way to stop King Fisher from blocking mail from arriving in Uvalde Fisher fears he will lose his power if he opens his road to the post office.
A peace-seeking Indian scout aids pioneers besieged by Native renegades.
After a trip to town, two miners find gold nuggets mixed with beans they bought convinced that finding the origin of the beans will make them wealthy, they head across the Arizona desert encountering difficulties along the way.
Amy Caldwell practices medicine in a remote community despite her husband John's concern for her the area comes under threat when an Indian warrior plots to take over his tribe.
A Mormon leader is determined to enforce God's law with a gun.
A blue-eyed goat named Billy and a mother's ability to bake biscuits help abandoned family members travelling by wagon from Utah to California.
Three orphan children continue their late parents' quest for gold.