Yuma fights off robbers as he takes a stage. When the stage arrives at its destination, a fellow passenger learns that her father, the town's sheriff, had been killed three months earlier. The woman had seen one of the bandits' unmasked face and Yuma has to protect her from retribution. Later Yuma overhears a conversation that deepens the mystery regarding the woman's father.; Yuma is ambushed by Wolf Yorick during a blizzard and is forced to guide the man to the Big Nugget mining camp. At the camp, Yorick holds a young girl captive to force the miners to give him her weight in gold.; Facts about finding gold in the Sierra Nevada mountains.