CONTENTS

Author’s Note

Maps

Prologue: A Late Thaw

1 A Railroad Through the Mountains

2 The Long Straw

3 Last Mountains

4 A Temporary Delay

5 Over the Hump

6 A Town at the End of the World

7 First Loss

8 Closing Doors

9 The Empire Builder Looks On

10 Ways of Escape

11 Last Chances

12 Avalanche

13 “The Reddened Snow”

14 Inquest

15 Act of God

Epilogue: A Memory Erased

Afterword: A Final Note on the Wellington Avalanche

Appendix: A Wellington Roster

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index