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The road / John Ehle ; foreword by Sharyn McCrumb.

Summary:

Weatherby Wright was a natural leader with a quiet strength that commanded the loyalty and affection of men and women. A railroad builder by profession, Weatherby had been born in the North Carolina Mountains and he knew what his railroad would bmean to the future of its impoverished settlers. So he bought a five-thousand-foot mountain that blocked the rout from the lowlands and made his plans to conquer it with rails.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1572330163
  • ISBN: 9781572330160
  • Physical Description: 401 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Harper & Row, [1967]
Subject: Railroads > Design and construction > Fiction.
Mountain life > Fiction.
Convict labor > Fiction.
Mountain life > North Carolina > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Appalachian Region, Southern > Fiction.
North Carolina > Fiction.
North Carolina > History > 1865-1950 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 33 of 36 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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  • 1 current hold with 36 total copies.
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Mars Hill Library FIC EHL MN2 (Text) 30229101058112 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/12/2025