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 husband and wife catch trouble when they allow an Apache chief's granddaughter to stay with them.
Ruel Gridley donates a bag of flour to a Civil War veterans' fund as part of a bet.
A criminal sentenced to hang invents a complicated omelet to delay his execution.
A Mexican woman refuses to leave Santa Fe despite advancing American armies.
Jeremy is a crew member on a blackbirding ship that inhumanely captures and enslaves native peoples he objects to the captain who then sends him into the Hawaiian mountains to retrieve escapees.
Amadeo Giannini, unorthodox founder of the Bank of Italy, fights to gain acceptance in San Francisco banking circles.
Jason Barnes takes a job with a railroad with a plan to advance quickly he romances the company president's daughter and plans to marry her until someone else has a different idea for his future.
An outlaw's daughter feels that her father was murdered by the sheriff and joins the man's old gang bent on revenge.
A prospector has hit a vein, and he's not about to share it with anyone, not even his partner.
Lt. Robert Benson becomes torn when the woman he loves asks him to give out secret government information.
A priest and a rabbi are ready to honor Abel Duncan's dying wish to have an ordained man of God conduct his burial service.
Outlaw-turned-preacher John Wesley Hardin's efforts to hide his past are threatened when an old gang member comes into town.
A lawyer who has turned to the bottle is ostracized when he refuses to help a miner.
Two outlaws set upon Maggie Woolf and her father who are taking refuge from a storm in an abandoned cabin.
The victim of an armed robbery dies before positively identifying the culprit, leading to a question of mistaken identity in the trial of a man who claims innocence despite resembling the killer.
Two thieves cause trouble after they overhear a conversation between a couple of businessmen.
A stray dog arrives in town and becomes loyal to Bill Gentry, who is courting Susan Sayers when her father is murdered, Bill is suspected with the only witness being the dog.
Maj. Galloway heads a group of Army scouts.
A pair of determined individuals set out to track down a master safecracker.
Mary likes the attention of many men, but that soon causes trouble in the town when one is murdered over her.
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