The Rainy Day Railroad War
by Holman Day
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About this eBook
- Author
- Day, Holman, 1865-1935
- Credits
- Produced by David Widger
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Railroads -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 22666
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22666
- Release Date
- September 18, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE RAINY DAY RAILROAD WAR
- 2.By Holman Day 1906 — THE RAINY DAY RAILROAD WAR
- 3.CHAPTER ONE—THE TRYING-OUT OF ONE RODNEY PARKER, ASSISTANT ENGINEER
- 4.CHAPTER TWO—THE WHIM THAT PROJECTED THE FAMOUS “POQUETTE CARRY RAILROAD”
- 5.CHAPTER THREE—ENGINEER PARKER GETS FINAL ORDERS FOR “THE LAND OF THE GIDEONITES.”
- 6.CHAPTER FOUR—IN WHICH THE DOUGHTY “SWAMP SWOGON” ASTONISHES SUNKHAZE SETTLEMENT
- 7.CHAPTER FIVE—HOW COLONEL GIDEON WAS BACKED DOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE
- 8.CHAPTER SIX—IN WHICH “THE CAT-HERMIT OF MOXIE” CASTS HIS SHADOW LONG BEFORE HIM
- 9.CHAPTER SEVEN—HOW “THE FRESH-WATER CORSAIRS” CAME TO SUNKHAZE
- 10.CHAPTER EIGHT—THE LOCOMOTIVE THAT WENT SWIMMING AND THE ENGINEER WHO WAS STOLEN
- 11.CHAPTER NINE—UP THE WINDING WAY TO THE “OGRE OF THE BIG WOODS.”
- 12.CHAPTER TEN—THE WANGAN DUEL
- 13.CHAPTER ELEVEN—THE BEAR THAT WALKED LIKE A MAN
- 14.CHAPTER TWELVE—THE STRANGE “CAT-HERMIT OF MOXIE”
- 15.CHAPTER THIRTEEN—THE BEAR OF THE BIG WOODS “BAITED” AFTER HIS OWN FASHION
- 16.CHAPTER FOURTEEN—HOW RODNEY PARKER PAID AN HONEST DEBT
- 17.CHAPTER FIFTEEN—THE DAY WHEN POQUETTE BURST WIDE OPEN
- 18.CHAPTER SIXTEEN—THE PACT THAT OPENED RODNEY PARKER'S PROFESSIONAL FUTURE
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