Laughing Bill Hyde plot
Convict Bill Hyde and his friend, Danny Dorgan, escape from prison, but while fleeing the guards, Danny is mortally wounded. The local doctor, Evan Thomas, tries so hard to save Danny that later, when Bill and the doctor meet in Alaska, the two become friends. A dying man gives his mine to the doctor, but when he discovers it is worthless, Bill sells it to a crook named John Wesley Slayforth for $50,000. Slayforth tries to swindle Ponotah, a part-Indian woman who owns another mine in which he has an interest, and Bill finds him work at the mine to explore.