Death in the mountain
By: John Hunter
Edition: Large Print edition.
Series: Wheeler Publishing Large Print Western; Wheeler large print western series
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781410455802; 9781471346408
Copyright date: 1969
Subjects: Large type books; Fiction; Deserts; Cable Railroads
Description: The Virginia and Truckee was more mountain goat than railroad. In the twenty-one miles from the desert sink at Carson City to the end of the rail, it climbed sixteen hundred feet in curves which, added together, made seventeen complete circles. And a lot of that on frail trestles with the "ground" falling away in a dead drop. To Ken Murdrock, used to the sturdiness of the Oregon plains, the journey up the mountain was a nightmare. But it was just the beginning of what would happen to him in the gold and silver madness of Virginia City.