George Bennet'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 to 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 110 wagons that started out, only two had held together till now.
What kept them going? to the greed for gold, for that had been long forgotten, Did they reach the "promised land"?
You'll din the answers in Vinnie Ruffo's true, unforgettable story, "Trapped in Death Valley".
