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.
When wagons break off from a wagon train and begin to run dangerously low on food and water when they become trapped in a hot desert west of Salt Lake City.
The story of the first volunteer fire brigade in Columbia, Calif., in 1861 and a fire engine called Little Papeete; a woman, in love with the chief, looks upon the engine as a rival and her attempts to get rid of it nearly cost the chief his life.
George Parker is unwilling to follow the rules of either his father or his church in the 1880s Utah; his friend Michael encourages his rebellious ways and suggests he even change his name; George decides to start his new life as Butch Cassidy.
After Manning cheats to secure an army freight contract, his competitors Red Eagle and Little Fawn must find a way to turn the situation in their favor.
Walter Watson is the new boxing instructor at the Olympic Club in San Francisco; after a confrontation with the local bully, he begins training banker James Corbett to face him in a bout that holds the future for both Watson and the club.
Pike, a trapper with a toxic attitude, becomes determined to win his girlfriend back by remaining calm, but his hot temper ends up saving him when he runs into Dakota Indians while hunting.
A wagon train headed to Oregon is abandoned by all of its members in order to prospect for gold; this leaves the train boss, his wife and a prisoner to continue alone into dangerous country.