Author Bret Harte relates the story of the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill, and how that discovery changed the history of the west forever.

John Dehner
Capt. John Sutter

Henry Jones
Joe Gillis

Gene Evans
Sam Brannon

Ken Curtis
Kentuck

Victor Mohica
Joaquin Murieta

Robert Hays
Bret Harte / Narrator

Cliff Osmond
Harry Love

Don Haggerty
Jake Brown
Coleman Creel
Owens

Henry Kendrick
C.C. Smith

Bill Zuckert
Parson
Bert Santos
John Aspiras

John Bishop
Thomas
David Chambers