ASIN: B00CA5K1MK
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 530
“The world of (RIVER ROGUE) is the world of the rivers down which the raftsmen brought their timber to the Darien market (in the late 1800s). The quality of this world—the aspect of the country, the sprees in the bars and dives, the cunning, viciousness, and honor of the rogues, the code of the raftsmen, who felt themselves set apart from other men—is rendered with a fine imaginative precision.” Robert Penn Warren, Saturday Review (1942)“Brainard Cheney tells all about (Snake Sutton) in his rip-snortin’, rootin’-tootin’ novel…Rarely will you encounter a book that plunges more deeply into a strange and specialized way of life…(Cheney) has a wild story to tell and a wild life to describe, and he does it with relish.” Orville Prescott, New York Times (1942)After the Civil War, 1870. Deep in the south Georgia river swamp forests. Ratliff Sutton, a young white boy, runs away from a broken ...
