Author: Gove, Bill,
Title: J. E. Henry's Logging Railroads: the history of the East Branch & Lincoln and Zealand Valley railroads.
Description: Littleton, NH, Bondcliff Books, 1998. VG lg sz PB. Long regarded as one of the greatest of the turn-of-the-century White Mountain lumber barons, James Everell Henry carved his way. in the history books by commanding a small army of lumberjacks who cut clean the vast untouched forests of the Zealand and East Branch valleys. A fascinating look back at one of New Hampshire's most colorful and determined lumbermen of all time. Exhaustively researched over 30 years, Gove chronicles the history of Henry's two highly successful logging railroads, plus the men who worked the woods, and the locomotives that steamed their way through the vast virgin forests of the White Mountains a century ago, from numerous firsthand accounts and anecdotes from many of the woods workers themselves.

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