Sevenoaks is a New England mill town strung along a rushing stream, ruled by Robert Belcher, its richest and most unscrupulous man. Having ruined the inventor whose patents made his fortune, Belcher moves to New York to speculate, while the trapper Jim Fenton shelters the inventor’s family in the northern woods and sets about bringing the swindler to account.
A vigorous Gilded Age novel of greed and justice from the founding editor of Scribner’s Monthly. Download the free EPUB.