The Snow-Burner

November sunlight finds Toppy Treplin asleep on a saloon table in Rail Head, sixty miles beyond the main line and a long way from the life he meant to leave. How did a former All-American halfback wake up at the edge of the wilderness?

At the end of a narrow-gauge railway in the snowbound North Country, Rail Head survives by sending men into the timber camps—and taking its cut when they return. Toppy, a wealthy young idler who stepped off a train in a fit of anger and drink, can’t explain why he came; then he learns about Hell Camp at Cameron Dam, ruled by the feared Reivers, the “Snow-Burner.” Across the street, workers wait to be sent into the bush, while a brisk young woman has arrived with her own purpose. Toppy’s curiosity is stirring, but what lies behind the camp’s ominous name—and what will he do when he finds out?

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