1897 - the last great gold rush! More than a hundred thousand raced
toward the Yukon and the Klondike - all of them desperate to be first to
arrive at the headwaters of the Yukon. Leaving his federal post in
Montana, U.S. Deputy Marshall Patrick Kelly becomes a partner in a
spectacular enterprise: the disassembly and transportation of
Studdsworth P. Blackmore's famous Alhambra gambling casino to Dawson
City so the gold stampeders will be able to spend their new wealth in
magnificent luxury. When the ship on which he is travelling founders off
the Alaskan coast, newspaper reporters give Kelly his nickname. Jack
McGowan and his beautiful daughter Lila, aboard their floating gambling
palace, the Faro's Daughter, provide a formidable challenge to Shipwreck
Kelly and his partners. With a spring thaw setting in on the waterways
of the North, the desperate race to be first to the headwaters of the
Yukon is on. Cree Indian Louis LeMo and the bateaux men on the Yukon
might swing the balance in Kelly's favor.