Lee Durham and Hank Bristow had been friends since boyhood. When news of the Klondike gold strike had filtered through to their home in the east, the two young men had thrown off their jobs in spite of their parent's protests, and had joined in the frenzied rush to the Yukon Territory. After prospecting unsuccessfully throughout the summer and fall of '98, they had finally staked out a claim on Venture Creek, but the claim hadn't paid off...