The Silver Burro

This episode presents a comedy-drama based on a true story of the Idaho Hills in 1885. A present-day investigator tells the story. A prospector named N.S. Kellogg sets out across the Coeur d'Alene Mountains, meagerly grubstaked by J.T. Cooper and O.O. Peck. Along the way, he loses his burro. When he finds the animal, it is standing atop the biggest vein of silver in the Northwest. Kellogg tries to cut out his partners and this precipitates a legal battle, which is finally resolved for everyone except the burro.