'The Claim Jumpers' is an adventure novel written by Stewart Edward White. The book provides a captivating story that begins with a group of artists in New York talking. Their main topic of conversation is Bennington de Laney. He is tasked by his family to go to the western region to assess some gold mines. The artists write to a friend of theirs, Jim Fay, requesting that he play pranks on Bennington. Although Bennington may appear naive to some, the reader will soon realize that he is not easily taken advantage of.