The Greatest Inventor in the West tells the story of one Joseph Malone, who possessed just the kind of ingenuity necessary for such a feat and whose creations, though they might succeed later, often failed spectacularly the first time they were tried.

Gold had lured many a fool on a dead end chase, and the prospectors who were seeking to stake a claim on the Golden Girl were no different. Legend placed the gold at the bottom of Hell's Canyon--a no man's-land surrounded by mile-high basalt cliffs.