A half-breed woman, ill, totters into Roaring Camp, a mining settlement where no woman had ever been. In a few hours she was dead, but left a reminder, an infant, who in a few years dominated these gold seekers. Her childish affections, however, went out to a gambler of the mining camp and from that grows a stirring tale such as only Western mining camps can provide and as only Bret Harte could describe.