Due to circumstances, a caravan of traders wandering between St. Louis and Santa Fe changes its usual course and ends up in a completely untrodden region of the Great North American Desert, where drought reigns and centuries-old dust swirls. Having chosen as their guide the white triangle of a snowy mountain looming in the distance, travelers find themselves on the threshold of a mysterious abyss guarded by cacti and cedars growing horizontally straight from the crevices of the rocks. The next volume of Mine Read includes novels about adventures in the Far West, in the Peruvian mountains and the Amazon jungle - "Dwelling in the Desert" and "Exiles in the Forest."