As our story begins, Caleb Bixby, a weather-beaten old prospector, flicks back his hair and scrubs his neck clean. Calling out to his wife Sarah, he's mighty excited and he's got a hunch it's going to be a big day for him. He needs to look slick for his meeting at the estate office, where he's going be collecting a report on the last ore he left there. He's certain he's going to walk out of there a millionaire today, but Sarah wants him to consider that he won't and that they should follow a different path now that they're older...