Review by psteier

An innocent girl (Nell Shipman as Faith Diggs) is lured to Dawson in the Yukon with her ailing father (Walt Whitman as The Skipper) by gambler Mark Leroy (Alfred Allen) with a promise of a grub stake to start a laundry for the miners. On the ship, he asks her to marry him instead, but tells her to keep the marriage secret. When they arrive, she overhears the gambler trying to sell her to the owner of a dance hall and is told that he is already married and that he lures girls to the Yukon with empty promises.

She runs off into the wilderness with her father and an old miner (George Berrell as Malamute Mike) who is looking for a lost claim, taking supplies, dogs and a dog sled from the gambler. They get lost and separated, but she finds the lost claim while her father is nursed by a woman living in the woods.

The gambler reports her and her father as thieves and a Monty (Cecil Van Auker) arrives but he waits until her father is recovered enough to travel. The the miner goes back to Dawson to register his claim, but the gambler gets a gang together and forces the miner to return to the claim in order to steal it.

After a chase on a cliff, the gambler falls to his death but she is saved.

An unusual independent American film from a time when the studio control of the distribution channels made it difficult for independents. As in most Nell Shipman movies, she seems most interested in the 'wild' animals that she plays with.