The wild beauty of the Yukon stretched out before Sam Bartlett, an aged trapper, as he stood in front of his cabin. His eyes swept the stillness of the snow covered country, in a quick appreciative glance, but then suddenly he stiffened... A twig snapped, and from force of habit, he raised the rifle laying in the crook of his arm. Bartlett was trapped between two men - and both of them were armed!