Adventure is where you find it--and young Til Carter found it in a hurry when he headed north into the toughest country in Alaska with Gordon Bettles, the hardiest old sourdough this side of hell. He also found a beautiful redhead named Julie Condon, who wanted him to settle down and buy into a safe claim, but Til had faith in Bettles's prophecy: "Somewheres, on some river, the big strike's comin'. An' when she comes, an' the news of it hits the outside, there's goin' to be the damnedest gold rush the world ever seen."