Stop the Train

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It s 1893 and for Cissy and her family, a new life beckons on the prairies of Oklahoma. Along with other settlers, they travel to Florence - a town yet to be built - and prepare for business alongside the Red Rock Railroad track. But the railroad company has other ideas. It wants to buy theland for itself - and when the settlers refuse to sell, the railroad boss swears his train will never stop in Florence again. Without the train there us no way the town can survive. So Cissy, her friends, family and neighbours resolve to stop that train, come what may - by fair means or foul...* Wonderful, exciting adventure story full of daring deeds and period detail

Page Count:
238

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Publication Date:
2001-10-18

History

Railroads

Frontier and pioneer life

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