# The Road Builders

Author: Merwin, Samuel, 1874-1936; Masters, F. B. (Frank B.), 1873-1955 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41825

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Road+Builders+Merwin&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The S. & W. was hoping some day to build a large station with a steel and glass trainshed at Sherman. Indeed, a side elevation of the structure, drawn to scale and framed in black walnut, had hung for a number of years in the private office, away down east, of President Daniel De Reamer. But that was to come in the day when Sherman should be a metropolis; at present the steel of which it was to be constructed still lay deep in the earth, unblasted, unsmelted, and unconverted; and the long, very dirty train which, at the time this narrative opens, was waiting to begin its westward journey, lay exposed to the rays of what promised to be, by noon, the hottest sun the spring had so far known....

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-road-builders-41825/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-road-builders-41825/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-road-builders-41825/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-road-builders-41825/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-road-builders-41825/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-road-builders-41825/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-road-builders-41825/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-road-builders-41825/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-road-builders-41825/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-road-builders-41825/chapters/2/index.md)