In 1899, James Kincaid travels to the North Slopes of Alaska to discover and explore the newly purchased unknown land. With the help of his Native guide,
Moaka, James builds and trains his own dog team which becomes
one of the best sled dog teams in the territory. He is charged
by the Wildlife Service to document the wildlife populations,
interact with the Natives and their culture, develop maps of the
land, and discover potential resources of this new frontier east of
Barrow. As James and Moaka explore and discover their assigned
territory, they are confronted by a huge rogue polar bear that
has been raiding villages, and has to be destroyed or chased back
onto the ice. While battling the marauding polar bear, the pursuit
nearly ends in disaster, as a Native is killed and the villagers are
terrorized by the spirit-struck polar bear.