The River
Unknown
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Description
Ednah Aiken wrote The River, issued at Indianapolis in nineteen fourteen. Sidney H Riesenberg drew the pictures. Aiken dedicates the book to Charles Sedgwick Aiken. Her contents open with Marshall sending for Rickard, the tale's young engineer.
A chapter called The Blessing of Aridity states the theme in a phrase. Desert hotels, red tape, and a garden in a desert follow. Rivals fight over water, and chapters move to a levee and the passing of the waters. Stokers and schemes crowd the close. Aiken writes of the great fight to bring river water to dry western land. Romance and reclamation share her pages.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 629 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |