Valley of the Vanishing Men begins with Ben Trainor receiving a letter from home that tells him that his brother who was bound for Alkali Valley has been missing. Alkali Valley was a lawless desert outpost, known for its gunplay and gold.
Within twenty-four hours he had been slugged, shot at, and bushwhacked. And when his friend Silvertip slipped into town to help him out, it was just the two of them against a pack of gun-happy killers.
