Publisher's Synopsis
No one much expects Rusty to go out in the desert beyond Rhyolite, a small mining town in Nevada's Amargosa Desert, and come home with the Mother Lode. No one, that is, except his two good Chinese friends, Lo Fat and Lee, and maybe his clever donkey Zeke. After all, Rusty's is pretty much a one-man operation and even his digging tools don't get much use (hence his name). But sure enough, on his first trip Rusty discovers a strongbox buried near a spring and in it enough nuggets of pure gold to pretty much buy the entire state.
