- Hurricane, a hot headed young Alaska fortune seeker, lands up becoming friends with a local sled driver Gregory and engaging in barroom brawls.He is angry to see in a society publication that his woman at home has forgotten him.
- Dawson, Alaska: Men return from work in the snow to a tavern, where a handsome youth, Hurricane, coming in with a coat ,makes an unusual request, for a glass of milk. The rugged and burly Gregory approaches and spills the glass, leading to a fight between them but they later become friends. A sled drawn by dogs arrives and bags are unloaded.The two men put down bowls for the dogs to drink, Hurricane offers Gregory a smoke,admires one of the dogs in particular, and says he has come to make some money for his girl who has stayed behind. They will set out again tomorrow morning. Back in the tavern Hurricane gambles at a table as a bottle is brought over, ignores a woman who flirts with him, and declines an offer to dance .He is applauded after, getting in a second fight with a different man, he throws the man out. A few months later.The men have headed further north .A drunken Indian, Bill, staggers into Hurricane's cabin and bangs on a drum.Hurricane asks him to sing and as he listens to the native there is a dissolve to the woman he is thinking of. Back at the tavern again, Gregory hands out the mail that has come for different people but stashes one envelope in his shirt pocket.When Hurricane enters, Gregory interrupts what is going on to tell the group, that a man whose snowshoe is hanging on the wall has been killed while he was away. A fracas erupts but one man is brought forward, admits his guilt, and denounces a second man who helped him.The two men are strung up, with the shadow of the first victim falling on the second while he is waiting. The other men leave the tavern. Back in his room talking to Gregory, Hurricane finds a publication with a picture of his girlfriend and another man.They return to the tavern.A new woman, Flossie, comes in from the cold and is hired to work. Bill puts on native feathered headdress and joins the proceedings in the tavern, where Hurricane starts drinking to forget his girl and there is quick cutting of the dancing.When other women pass the publication around he gets angry and another fracas results. Gregory agrees to accompany Hurricane and his new woman, Flossie, as they go away but they come to a dangerous area where they just escape an avalanche.Bill sings and beats the drum at night. For several days after, the dogs are dragged through the snow and the howling wind, one of the dogs looks like it is not going to make it, but the party is rescued. Hurricane is delirious from an illness but Flossie can take care of him when Gregory leaves.She gives him the letter that Gregory had set aside. When we next see Hurricane, he is dressed to the nines with a black tie and is looking out from his chair at skyscrapers lighted at night.He is back in society but is uncomfortable and once again gets in a fight with another man, then stalks off. Then we see him once more in Alaska, back with a dog and singing with Gregory, they chew on some tough meat.Two people come in from the cold, and one of them is Flossie.
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