Excerpt from Jimmy Kirkland of the Shasta Boys Team The Chinook that had transformed the great desert from a glaring waste of white to a sea of mud had caused a flood that had swept away bridges, turned streams, usually mere trickles, into raging rivers, and the small rivers into torrents that rushed down ward to the upper Columbia, the Humbolt, the Snake, the Wood and the Hood rivers. Such a flood the desert seldom had seen. Train service on the great transcontinental lines had been disorganized, then demoral' ized, then suspended, while reports of dam' age, of washed-out tracks and bridges held thousands of passengers of the majestic Overland trains marooned at Salt Lake, at Ogden and at Denver, while armies of engi neers and sappers rushed forward to open the lines that East and West might be connected again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.