A violent plague crippling society has been a horrific premise in fiction for a long time. In reality, Bird flu, swine flu, Ebola, and Covid-19 were all very real disease-related issues that mirrored fictional illness. In Stephen King’s The Stand, there is a great deal of misery when his disastrous flu attacks society. However, in this post, we are going to set aside the plot-related elements of the novel(mostly), and instead focus on a subject that comes from one of the most interesting characters in the book—The Trashcan Man. As such, we are going to talk about Cibola, or the Seven Cities of Gold.