George Bennett's father got gold fever and took the family to Missouri, where they joined a wagon train bound for "the promised land"--California. Four months later, with short tempers, a scarcity of food, and winter about the set in, the group found themselves only in Utah, several months journey short of their goal. Because their own supplies were meager, the Mormons would not allow the wagon train to winter in Salt Lake City.

At last the migrants found themselves trapped in death Valley. They lost some of their rationed food when someone stole it right from the cooking pot. Scorched by the desert sun, and short on water for several days, they found a patch of snow on a mountain slope. Later they were surrounded by miles of jagged salt flats in the valley and hemmed in by mountains on all sides. Their condition grew desperate. Of the 110 wagons that started out only to have held together till now.

What kept them going? At the greed for gold, for that have been long forgotten. Did they reach the "promised land"?

You'll find the answer in Vinnie rRuffo's true, unforgettable story, "trapped in death Valley".