[Gutenberg 41825] • The Road Builders

[Gutenberg 41825] • The Road Builders
Authors
Merwin, Samuel
Publisher
The Macmillan Company
Tags
western stories , railroads -- united states -- design and construction -- fiction
Date
1905-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.69 MB
Lang
en
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• Two of American writer Samuel Merwin's classic novels are in this Kindle eBook: The Road Builders (an old-fashioned Texas western) & The Road to Frontenac

The Road Builders

This is a classic western involving Paul Carhart and his team of railroad engineers. Their job is difficult -- building in West Texas during the 1870s. The main enemy is not the Apaches but a railroad magnate named Commodore Durfee. The men must struggle across 100 miles of desert to reach Red Hills, and there is a dangerous river crossing along the way.

The Road to Frontenac

A Romance of Early Canada (1901)

About The Author

American author Samuel Merwin. (1874 – 1936) was an Illinois-born playwright and author who worked as a magazine editor. Merwin born in Evanston, Illinois. His father was the postmaster of Evanston. He attended Northwestern University and worked as editor of SUCCESS magazine, and he was sent to China to investigate the opium trade. Merwin married Edna Earl Fleshiem in 1901 and they had two sons. He died while at The Player's Club in New York in 1936.