While his mother is trying to find an unpolluted planet for witches, Witchard decides to save Halloween.

Marcus Daly, the Irish lad who became a mining tycoon, William Andrews Clark, the wealthy mine owner who was determined to be a Congressman, and Frederick Augustus Heinze, the unscrupulous opportunist were three of the men who dug their fortunes out of the "richest hill on earth" in Butte, Montana.

Presents in text and illustrations the growing amount of evidence indicating the existence of an enormous ape-like creature in the Northwest wilderness.