While Gene, Pat, and the Cass County Boys are traveling with a Medicine Show, they happen across the murder of a prospector by the name of Gold Dust Charlie. However, when they dig the prospector’s grave, they find some gold and when Gene tries to register the claim; he gets arrested for the old man’s murder. With the help of the Cass County Boys, Gene is able to escape from jail and they set out to find Gold Dust Charlie’s real murderer.