A young couple and their neighbors celebrate Christmas in 1874 on the Dakota prairie. Despite tragedy and an ongoing battle with the railway company, Christmas is a homespun and overly-sentimental event. This program was recommended by the National Education Association.
Santa Claus is given the key to a locker. Colt arrests Santa who is also a bail-jumper and works in an orphanage that is about to be closed due to lack of money. In the locker, Colt finds stolen treasury bonds that the thugs are after.