Title: Tycoon
Description: Tycoon is the story of Johnny O'Fallon, a tough-minded civil engineer who builds a railroad bridge for an irascible South American tycoon while wooing his beautiful, strong-willed daughter. (It was made into a 1947 film starring John Wayne, Laraine Day, and Cedric Hardwicke.)
Subjects: adventure, railroads, love story, Fiction
Places: Tanango, South America
Time periods: contemporary 1930