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The desert looks very different from the comfort of a railway smoking car. Two young travellers lounge over drinks as their train crosses a dry, forbidding landscape, and one expects his wealthy father to soften his insistence that a man should work for himself. At Prairie City, the sight of a woman riding hard toward the train breaks the boredom of the trip.

Jackson Gregory's Western novel sets this world of easy money beside the practical demands of bringing water to the desert. Conniston learns how dams and canals are intended to serve Rattlesnake Valley and Valley City. John Crawford's project faces a strict October deadline and opposition from a wealthy syndicate. Readers interested in engineering within an adventure story will find maps, construction problems and financial pressure tied to a larger question of effort and responsibility.