Description
Cherry River Line takes the reader back to the early twentieth-century in central West Virginia during the heart of the logging boom that would soon denude the state of its lush virgin timber. It is a mythical tale written in sawdust, sweat, blood, love, and tears. The book paints a vivid picture of the harsh realities and dangers of the lumber wood as a background for a persistent lawman in pursuit of a reluctant killer. Bright sunlight and dark shadows often make the truth difficult to discern as danger lurks from the banks of the Elk to the dark forests of the hinterland where supernatural elements and ancient traditions survive in the vale of the virgin timber. The reader will hear the peck of the double bitted axe, the skirling of mountain fiddles, the rushing of the Elk, the screams of the innocent and the laughter of a madman. History and folklore merge in this dark tale that will linger on like the smell of coal smoke from a Shay engine winding its way along the narrow gauge.
