The Station Master's Wife

Summary

A novel of characters pulled from Oregon history in the late 1800's through the 1920s. Pioneers, railroad men, and the women who held everything together through daily life and the scandals hidden beneath. I feared for their lives and their ears. Our local weekly newspaper showed pictures of them dangling from ropes hanging in woven baskets off the embankment of a mountain in order to tap sticks of dynamite into the holes they drilled in the granite cliff faces they blasted away. One could hear that awful, loud dynamite blasting all the way in town. But the booming had been even worse for the ears of the railroad workers who detonated the charges for the grading and tunneling, especially the Chinese who were given these most dangerous jobs.

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