Pickett's Gap

A boy stands between titans of industry and his mother's resting place. When two rival railroads set their sights on Pickett's Gap, both claiming the right to lay tracks through the ancient family graveyard, thirteen-year-old Dannie Pickett holds the only proof that can save it: the memory of which survey team came first. But winter is closing in, the snow is rising, and the truth is locked inside a diary he must carry across hostile territory. This is adventure as it was meant to be: a child against the forces that would flatten the past, armed with nothing but courage and love. Homer Greene wrote this in 1896, and it still crackles with the plain-spoken heroism of an America that believed in standing up to giants.