GOLD FEVER! In the days of 1849, when gold was struck at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento City, a kind of madness raged across America. Sober bankers from Boston left wives and children and took passage West...Sailors in San Francisco harbor jumped ship and took up pick and shovel...Emigrant scholars pulled on boots and headed for the Mother Lode, a one-mile-wide, one-hundred-and-twenty-mile-long strip of quartz crystals in which fortunes in gold lay hidden. Among the swarming multitudes were the bankrupt Lady Pamela Buttle-Jones, her beautiful wanton daughter, Selena, the starving young prospector, Danny O'Lee, the footloose frontiersman, Berry Fitzpatrick and the enigmatic gambler, King Sutton. Thrown together, their private passions rise with the consuming fury of Gold Fever.