- Feisty Annie O'Toole comes to Nevada with her old Da (aka "Himself") to mine silver and winds up feeding the silver miners, shanghaiing Adam Cartwright to be her partner in her tent-kitchen ("The Square Meal") and to be her attorney in Miner's Court when an old enemy challenges her right to her claim.—shepherd1138 / edited by Rob
- Swede Lundborg has struck it rich in Virginia City. He has two claims and one of them paid off. His fiance, Annie O'Toole, grabs up one of the deeds since she staked Swede. She says she, Swede, and her father, Kevin "Himself" O'Toole are all going to Nevada. "Himself" doesn't want to. The heathen air will kill him, he claims. And sure enough it does. When the Cartwrights meet Annie, her father is lying dead in the back of her wagon along side her stove. Hoss helps her bury her father on Swede's claim and she pays him with a meal. The scent of real home cooking brings every miner in the area. Adam doesn't think it's safe for a woman alone on the Washoe and proposes that she feed these men at a $1/plate to earn the money to return to San Francisco. She agrees on the condition that he be her partner. So they open up a restaurant. But even though Annie earns lots of money (by raising prices for meals) she refuses to go home. Then Gregory Spain arrives saying she's on the site he bought from Swede, claim #2. Annie refuses to give up her rights to this claim. After all, "Himself" is buried here. Spain refuses to take claim #1 because it isn't the one that has the strike. After some fighting, they go to miner's court with Ben as the judge. Spain says he has the deed to claim #2 and since Annie never made the required improvements, she defaults on the claim. Adam is able to prove that Annie did make the improvements. Hoss dug an exploration hole six feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide. Just because he put a body in it and filled it back up doesn't change the fact that it was an exploration hole. Annie wins. Eventually Spain offers her $25,000 for the claim. He knows he'll find far more in silver on it than that. She sells and moves "Himself" over to claim #1. But when they dig his new burial plot, they strike gold.
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