Set in Western Canada near the end of the 19th century Raw Gold tells the story of an old man remembering the glory days of his past, when buffalo still ran free, men were still men, and the living may not have been easy, but it was exciting and worthwhile all the same. During the gold rush, a cowhand returning from delivering horses to Northwest Territory police meets an old friend who joined a Royal Canadian Mounted Police and now serves as a Mountie. As cowhand gets robbed, he joins his police friend in search for the robbers when they run into a dying miner who reveals them the location of a gold cache and they are off to a new mission.