Up until the desperate moment when he heard the jury's inexorable verdict of "Guilty" Roy Stennis had been confident that he would be set free in time to pick up his pard who was waiting for him in a forbidden Yukon valley.

Story of a band of pioneers and their epic journey across the continent in 1849, some of them drawn by fabulous tales of gold, some by dreams of a new life in a new land, but many, like Jonathan, by adventure alone.