A Study in Scarlet - Chapter 8 - The Country of the Saints

Welcome to a precipitous dive into the gruelling heart of the great North American Continent, into the bleak expanses of the arid and repulsive desert - the great Alkali plain. Chapter 6 of A Study in Scarlet opens to this formidable panorama, a land that stands as sentinel against the march of civilisation from the peaks of Sierra Nevada to the reaches of Nebraska, Yellowstone in the north to Colorado in the south. Here, in this land of stark contrasts, we traverse the snow-capped mount...