Gus murders Rose and runs to Russia. But why, and what were they doing in Alaska in the second decade of the 20th Century? Gus Priesner is a coal miner from the Ruhr Valley. A Prussian who served in the Kaiser's Navy in 1900, he finds his way to Canada prior to World War I. Enroute to the Klondike, he meets a Second Boer War veteran, Grumble Brantley, changes direction, and mines the copper of the remote Alaskan wilderness. A strike at the mine changes...