The Desert Valley

Professor James Edward Longstreet, retired university geologist, and his more practical daughter, Helen, have the courage, brains and determination to find gold and silver when they arrive in the Southwest desert — but they are inexperienced in field work and the deceptive ways of greedy men. They find both gold and a mystery, a hastily abandoned campsite marked by a stick with a bluejay feather on it, supper burning on the fire, and the tracks of a huge dog. Rancher Alan Howard invites the...