Valley of the Shadow Author:brian garfield VALLEY OF DEATH Lieutenant Miles Cultrane rode into Valduro with the Corps of Engineers to settle a dispute between the miners and the farmers. Once a prosperous ranch and farm country, the area around town lay mired under tons of silt washed down from the mountains by the gold mining operations. In their lust for gold, the miners had practicall... more »y destroyed the town. War was imminent. Cultrane, caught between duty and loyalty - his father owned a mine - knew that when the showdown came, a resolution would be hammered out in blood.« less