Elam "Burning Daylight" Harnish is a prospector who makes a million dollars in the Dawson, Alaska gold rush and loses the million dollars in Dawson. He journeys to San Francisco, makes three million dollars and loses it in San Francisco. He returns to Alaska and eventually finds his treasure.
Milton Sills
as Elam 'Burning Daylight' Harnish
Doris Kenyon
as Virgie
Arthur Stone
as French Louie
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
as English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
Lawford Davidson
as Morton
Jane Winton
as Martha Fairbee
Stuart Holmes
as Blake
Edmund Breese
as John Dossett
Howard Truesdale
as Letton
Frank Hagney
as Johnson
Harry Northrup
as The Stranger
