Rails, Sagebrush And Pine. A Garland Of Railroad And Logging Days In Oregon's Sumpter Valley

MALLORY HOPE FERRELL

Publication: Golden West Books, 1967, San Marino

First edition. 4to. Brown cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine, pictorial front and rear endpapers, 128 pp., frontispiece, acknowledgments, foreword, illustrated mostly from photographs, maps, index. The Sumpter Valley Railway, Oregon's narrow gauge railroad was built during the great days of the lumber barons and was used to haul logs to Baker where they were in great demand by lumber companies. Later the railroad carried gold ore as well for a short time during the bomanza. A good book of Oregon's most impressive railroad. Fine, bright copy in a bright dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends.

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