Big Timber. Bertrand W. Sinclair
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Bertrand W. Sinclair
Big Timber
A Story of the Northwest
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664571441
Table of Contents
A CLOSE CALL AND A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
IN WHICH THERE IS A FURTHER CLASH
"OUT OF THE NIGHT THAT COVERS ME"
CHAPTER I
GREEN FIELDS AND PASTURES NEW
The Imperial Limited lurched with a swing around the last hairpin curve of the Yale canyon. Ahead opened out a timbered valley—narrow on its floor, flanked with bold mountains, but nevertheless a valley—down which the rails lay straight and shining on an easy grade. The river that for a hundred miles had boiled and snarled parallel to the tracks, roaring through the granite sluice that cuts the Cascade Range, took a wider channel and a leisurely flow. The mad haste had fallen from it as haste falls from one who, with time to