Un terrible incendie se déclare dans une fabrique de munitions, provoquant la mort d'un ouvrier. Accusé à tort d'avoir saboté toutes les installations, Barry Kane décide de ne pas attendre la police, mais de fuir et de mener une enquête pour retrouver lui-même le vrai responsable du désastre, qu'il pense connaître.
En 1900, à Nome, en Alaska, les découvreurs de sources aurifères voient leurs exploitations menacées par l'afflux de chercheurs d'or venus de tous les États-Unis. Roy Glennister et Al Dextry se défendent contre un certain Galloway, qui tente de s'approprier leur terrain. Les deux associés ont derrière eux Cherry Malotte, femme influente à qui appartient le saloon de la ville, et qui entretient une relation avec Roy. Arrivent à Nome Alexander McNamara, commissaire à l'or, le juge Horace Stillman, et sa nièce Helen Chester. Ils sont envoyés par le gouvernement afin d'apporter à la ville un minimum de justice. Roy est d'avis de faire confiance aux deux hommes de loi pour régler le conflit face à Galloway, tandis que Al, méfiant, préfère défendre ses terres avec son fusil nommé Betty. Finalement, Roy accepte de confier à la banque le coffre-fort contenant le fruit de leur travail, et ce durant les quelques jours nécessaires au procès...
Le petit-fils de l'homme invisible coulait des jours paisibles à New-York jusqu'à ce qu'un agent allemand, épaulé par un confrère nippon, fasse irruption dans sa vie, espérant lui arracher le secret de l'invisibilité. Il se met alors au service des Alliés. Parachuté sur Berlin, il a pour mission d'aider au démantèlement d'un réseau d'espions infiltrés aux États-Unis.
A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first he thinks it's just a coincidence, as the beautiful young woman he's romancing is much younger than the woman who vanished, who would be in her late 50s or early 60s by now. Soon, however, he begins to believe that maybe it's not such a coincidence after all.
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes to manipulate the sale of town lots to give him control, but Quaker schoolmarm Annie Morgan bags one of the key lots. Cork's lawyer Steve Lewis tries romancing Annie to get the lot back, finding her so overpoweringly liberated she leaves him dizzy. Still, Steve attains his nefarious object...almost...then has cause to deeply regret having aroused the sleeping giant of feminism!
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the star. Carlo Sonino, also a member of the company, falls in love with Ethel and warns her against becoming infatuated with the amorous singer.
Young Sandra De Hault arrives by ship in Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush. While on board she adopted three children whose mother had died during the voyage. While in Sacramento she is saved from the attentions of a violent drunk by Stanton Holliday, an agent for eastern banker John Grey. They fall for each other, but Sandra believes that the daughter of Halliday's boss is in love with him, and not wanting to hurt his career she leaves town.
The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship.
A carnival huckster who decides to turn pennies into dollars by passing himself off as a hellfire-and-brimstone evangelist.