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Title: The Last Spike
And Other Railroad Stories

Author: Cy Warman

Release Date: January 22, 2006 [EBook #17572]

Language: English

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THE

LAST SPIKE

AND OTHER

RAILROAD STORIES

BY

CY WARMAN

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1906

_Copyright, 1906_,
BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published February, 1906

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE LAST SPIKE 1

THE BELLE OF ATHABASCA 31

PATHFINDING IN THE NORTHWEST 49

THE CURE'S CHRISTMAS GIFT 61

THE MYSTERIOUS SIGNAL 85

CHASING THE WHITE MAIL 107

OPPRESSING THE OPPRESSOR 119

THE IRON HORSE AND THE TROLLEY 135

IN THE BLACK CANON 151

JACK RAMSEY'S REASON 165

THE GREAT WRECK ON THE PERE MARQUETTE 181

THE STORY OF AN ENGLISHMAN 193

ON THE LIMITED 211

THE CONQUEST OF ALASKA 219

NUMBER THREE 237

THE STUFF THAT STANDS 253

THE MILWAUKEE RUN 273

THE LAST SPIKE

"Then there is nothing against him but his poverty?"

"And general appearance."

"He's the handsomest man in America."

"Yes, that is against him, and the fact that he is always _in_ America.
He appears to be afraid to get out."

"He's the bravest boy in the world," she replied, her face still to the
window. "He risked his life to drag me from under the ice," she added,
with a girl's loyalty to her hero and a woman's pride in the man she
loves.

"Well, I must own he has nerve," her father added, "or he never would
have accepted my conditions."

"And what where t