This hardcover dust jacket is the
Maine Classic Annotated Edition
. * * * Who controls the Maine woods? -and for what purposes should the land be used?
In this wonderful Holman Day novel a powerful railroad president sets out to run his tracks to his favorite fishing hole. A young construction engineer takes the orders to accomplish the task with determination. However, a curmudgeonly lumber baron is determined to sink the project before the first track is spiked-an outcome he takes literally.
History from Maine's lumber woods tell of how the companies utilized ox cart railways across carries, and trams and various ingenious sled contraptions connected to snub lines in order to transport the timber down mountains and across the terrain to the lakes and rivers. Yet, until the
Poquette Carry Railroad
was proposed, no rail line had ever carried passengers between two remote lakes, inaccessible by roads, for the purpose of access to a sporting lodge. Such a notion was ludicrous to the lumber bosses of the woods who had one purpose for the land and that was to get out the timber.
The dispute over land rights culminated with the rainy day railroad war pitting the men from the lumber camp against the construction crew. In a twist, the winners of the war just might be family members who long ago had a war of their own.
Will the young railroad engineer look past the injustices done to him and reunite two brothers estranged since after the Civil War?