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The morning air rocked with the explosions of a half-dozen guns. Ten cutthroats rode into Alkali Coulee to ambush the steamboat Great West. They ignored an old Indian sitting by the dock. That wasn't smart.

A crazy miner and a stubborn woman meet, then all hell breaks loose. Maybe they'll marry. It depends on who reaches the shotgun first.

Hand-sled Riley is being pursued by Granden, a wanted man. Granden is wanted on the American side, which is why Riley is fleeing in that direction. But Granden has no intention of letting Riley escape. He has a gun, and Riley does not. He wants a bullet to settle the matter before they leave the Canadian wilderness.

Buzz Leary has been in the Klondike, working in the timber business around Copper River, but now he comes back to Skidway. Leary still owns the lush stands of white pine that several others have long coveted, and no one is more his enemy than Mary Dardis who blames Leary for having killed her father.

When the ship on which Patrick Kelly is travelling founders off the Alaskan coast, newspaper reporters give Kelly his nickname. Jack McGowan and his beautiful daughter, Lila, aboard their floating gambling palace, provide a formidable challenge to Shipwreck Kelly and his partners. With a spring thaw setting in on the waterways of the North, the desperate race to be first to the headwaters of the Yukon is on. Cree Indian Louis LeMo and the bateaux men on the Yukon might swing the balance in Kelly's favor.