Jesper Tubbs has spent his life wandering the western mountains searching for the elusive glint of gold. But Fate plays its fickle hand late in his life when, at the point of starvation, he literally stumbles upon a fabulous strike. But Tubbs finds far more than just gold. His chance discovery is to turn sane men into wanton killers who will stop at nothing to find his secret location deep in the Tobacco Root Mountains, and claim it as their own.