The Grub Stake
A young woman is lured to the Yukon by a gambler with promises of marriage and a grubstake for a gold mine. She takes her ailing father with her, only to discover when she gets there that the gambler was lying to her and actually planned to sell her to a dance hall. She gathers her father and an old miner she has met, takes a dogsled and supplies from the gambler and the three of them head for the wilderness to look for a lost gold claim the old miner has been looking for.
- genus: Drama, Adventure, Western
- Studio: Nell Shipman Productions Inc., Sierra Pictures
- keyword: woman director
- cast: Nell Shipman, Hugh Thompson, Alfred Allen, Lillian Leighton, George Berrell, Walt Whitman
