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Samuel Merwin. The Road Builders
The Road Builders
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. YOUNG VAN ENGAGES A COOK
CHAPTER II. WHERE THE MONEY CAME FROM
CHAPTER III. AT MR. CARHART’S CAMP
CHAPTER IV. JACK FLAGG SEES STARS
CHAPTER V. WHAT THEY FOUND AT THE WATER-HOLE
CHAPTER VI. THE ROAD TO TOTAL WRECK
CHAPTER VII. THE SPIRIT OF THE JOB
CHAPTER VIII. SHOTS—AND A SCOUTING PARTY
CHAPTER IX. A SHOW-DOWN
CHAPTER X. WHAT TOOK PLACE AT RED HILLS
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Samuel Merwin
Published by Good Press, 2021
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And as Tiffany was not at all a bad fellow, and had admired Carhart’s part in the Rio Grande fight (though he would have managed some things differently, not to say better, himself), the two engineers seemed likely to get on very well.
Carhart’s three trains would hardly get over the five hundred miles which lay between Sherman and the end of the track in less than twenty-seven or twenty-eight hours. “The private car,” as the boys called it, was of an old type even for those days, and was very uncomfortable. Everybody, from the chief down, had shed coat and waistcoat before the ragged skyline of Sherman slipped out of view behind the yellow pine trees. The car swayed and lurched so violently that it was impossible to stand in the aisle without support. As the hours dragged by, several of the party curled up on the hard seats and tried to sleep. The instrument and rod and stake men and the pile inspectors, mostly young fellows recently out of college or technical institute, got together at one end of the car and sang college songs.
