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Beside Ripley Creek in Mendocino County, Hiram Hooker tosses pebbles while his neighbors in Bear Valley call him lazy. Sebastian Burris thinks the young man's ideas and abilities need a wider field, and offers to help him reach San Francisco. Their conversation gives Arthur Preston Hankins's California novel an opening concerned with pride, reputation and the difficulty of finding work that fits a person's talents.
Farther into the story, Jo must defend her freight business against Al Drummond's trucks. She matches his price and worries about whether her wagon teams can keep pace through mountain passes and desert sand. Hiram drives one of the teams, and an unexplained rumble on a winding stretch of road interrupts the practical business of hauling supplies. Detailed attention to rates, loads and deliveries gives readers a picture of working life as motor transport challenges established methods.
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- Author
- Arthur Preston Hankins
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 187
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
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