Caroline just wants the same adventures her brothers have. But they're headed West to California to find gold, and that's no place for a girl. So Caroline takes matters, and scissors, into her own hands by cutting her hair and donning the clothes of a gold-hungry young boy. One of the young men traveling with her is handsome Dan Riddle, who treats her the way he would any young boy. But underneath the clothes of the boy pounds the heart of a young woman ...