<p>A British emigrée to America attempts to make a career out of selling books and artwork during the Gold Rush, before heading back to Europe just as the civil War breaks out. Once there, he discovers the joys of photography. He turning to America after the war, he makes a name for himself in the West as a landscape photographer, before being approached by one of America's richest men to make a glamour photograph of his prize horse. </p>
A British emigrée to America attempts to make a career out of selling books and artwork during the Gold Rush, before heading back to Europe just as the civil War breaks out. Once there, he discovers the joys of photography. He turning to America after the war, he makes a name for himself in the West as a landscape photographer, before being approached by one of America's richest men to make a glamour photograph of his prize horse.