This was Kirk Douglas's final contracted film with Warner Brothers  after a long period of rough relationships between him and the company.

The film has fallen into the public domain after Warner Brothers did not renew their copyrights for the film. The reasons for this action is still unknown.

In 1900, lumberman Jim Fallon (Kirk Douglas) greedily eyes the big trees in the virgin region of northern California. The land is already settled by, among others, a religious group led by Elder Bixby, Charles Meredith.  Jim is attracted to Bixby's daughter, Alicia, Eve Miller,  though that does not change his plan to cheat the homesteaders. When Jim's right-hand man, Yukon Burns (Edgar Buchanan) finds out, he changes sides and leads the locals in resisting Jim.