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Soo Canal! A Romantic Historical Novel by William Ratigan w/dust jacket
Soo Canal! A Romantic Historical Novel by William Ratigan dust jacket
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
Ex Library Book
186 Pages
Copyright 1954 2nd Printing June
Contents
Book I
HURON BELLE
1. Traveling Salesman Story 15
2. Mr. Longfellow At Home 15
3. Three Days Up From Buffalo 18
4. Representing Fairbanks Scales 21
5. Wings On Her Feet 22
6. Two Auction Escorts 24
7. Genesee Bids High 26
8. Fist Fight 29
9. His True Love 31
10. Salesman: To Sell The Future 35
11. Adventuring Beyond The Moon 37
12. A Tent Near Copper Harbor 39
Book II
ERIE WAR
1. Gainsborough Portrait 43
2. Chinese Lantern Dreams 46
3. A Vermont Inventor 47
4. Big Eyes 52
5. Flattering A Solar Compass 55
6. Wildcat By The Tail 61
7. Dirty Work Afoot 66
8. Steamboat Race 67
9. Red Skies 69
10. Tallest Buildings On Manhattan 71
11. Kissing Trouble 74
Book III
MICHIGAN HORSESHOE
1. Dead Men's Bones 81
2. Shotgun Wedding Threat 85
3. A Stowaway Aboard 88
4. Mr. Longfellow Says No 93
5. A Bonny Widow Applies 93
6. Shooting The Rapids 97
7. Second Thessalonians, III, 10 100
8. Carcajou Winter 102
9. Snowshoe Pike Wall Street 106
Book IV
ONTARIO RIBBON
1. Susan Marie Hears The Huntsmen 115
2. A Barnburner Or Three 118
3. Teetotal Courtship 121
4. Voices In The Rapids 124
5. Plague Flag 126
6. The Burial Squad 130
7. Two Letters Mention Mr. Whittier 132
8. Surprise Party 133
9. Murder And Flight 137
10. Trouble Is The Spur 141
11. Windowshopping In Montreal 144
12. Harvard Professor 146
13. Harvey's Hammer 148
14. Jungle Law Under The North Star 150
Book V
SUPERIOR PASSPORT
1. Wilderness Search 157
2. Shillelaghs And Knuckle-dusters 159
3. Spring Breakup 162
4. Showdown: Three-Ton Punch 165
5. Vote Of Confidence 170
6 Arguing The Right Of First Passage 171
7. Mr. Longfellow's Compliments To The Soo Canal 175
8. Wedding Of The Lakes 176
9. Gangway For Tomorrow 179
EPILOGUE
1. Marker For All Time 185
Inside Dust Jacket
Set against the colorful panorama of the Great Lakes, surging in its action from Duluth to Montreal, from Northwoods to Wall Street, SOO CANAL! dramatizes the exciting pattern of men and events drawn irresistibly toward a remote Michigan portage a century ago to transform it into an international waterway greater than the Suez and the Panama canals combined.
When two trailblazers in their reckless twenties Harvey the traveling salesman and Ringgold the steamboat captain accept the challenge of impossible odds to undertake driving a ship canal from the Lower Lakes into the treasures of forbidding Lake Superior, then History indeed holds its breath. Not only fortunes in copper, iron, timber, and wheat are at stake, but America's very future hangs in the balance. In fact, the destiny of a free world rides on the big ditch that must be pushed to completion against a deadline, despite the savage wilderness and ruthless opposition.
Romance, moving at cross purposes, holds the stage with high adventure in SOO CANAL! What does a beautiful but tempestuous girl do when the man she loves dedicates himself to a project she hates? Proud Genesee Trowbridge answers that question in explosive fashion after losing her heart to young Harvey. How can a wild Irish-Ojibway maid with kiss-and-come-again lips force a certain Lakeman to realize she is not a child. Sparkling Susan Marie stops at nothing to make Captain Ringgold pay for his big-brother indifference to her saucy charms. Her one-sided love affair with the sailor who claims to be Longfellow's cousin brings into romantic focus the strange ties that unite two of America's masterworks the Soo Canal and the Song of Hiawatha.
Teeming with characters from all walks of life, loaded with frontier violence and cloakroom intrigue, SOO CANAL! portrays the spirit of America a youthful gangway-for-tomorrow spirit forever taking danger or failure in stride, and pausing only long enough (as Harvey's Hammer demonstrates) to invent itself out of trouble before moving on again toward the bright promise ahead.
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