From Salt Lake City, if you were driving on vacation and wanted to see the fresh countryside, you could forget Interstate 15 to Los Angeles, and choose Route 6. If you were Sarah Conway, teacher, looking for general background for your doctorate, and preparing your thesis on the gold rush which shaped American history, you might wander even further afield, into that dread, nightmare desert known as Death Valley, and in it, to a place beyond death, a ghost among ghosts...