Rodney Parker, an untried assistant engineer, is handed the job of building the Poquette Carry Railroad through the Maine woods on the whim of a stubborn old magnate. In the lumber country around Sunkhaze he must face down hostile woodsmen, the formidable Colonel Gideon, a hermit with a grudge and a gang of fresh-water corsairs, while his locomotive ends up in the lake.
A brisk, humorous backwoods yarn by the Maine writer who knew its lumber camps and characters well. Download the free EPUB.