Chance Hollister is hired to find a young girl who followed her husband to the gold fields of Colorado. Her mother has not heard from her daughter, Lucy, in three years and is not well; she wants the girl to come home before it is too late. Chance thinks the search is a lost cause but cannot turn the woman down. He follows the girl's trail from Missouri to Colorado and finally to the lead mining region of Kansas. He finds Lucy, now a widow who...