BLOW FOR BATTEN'S CROSSING A Backwoods Odyssey by Hazel B. Girard, Marvin Girard
Memoirs of growing up in Glennie, Michigan - more specifically, Batten's Crossing - on the Batten farm carved out of the virgin wilderness by the author's lumberjack father.
"Few kids today ever have the pleasure of living on a farm where the main artery of a railroad runs between the house and the barn. The A.S. & N.W. (Au Sable and North Western Railroad) did just that.
The little narrow-gauge train rattled the window panes twice a day - once early in the morning when it went by with the long string of flat cars for the 'pickup' of freshly cut logs 'further up the pike,' and again in the afternoon when it returned with its massive loads of sawlogs chained to the flat cars enroute to the sawmills at Au Sable and Oscoda." - from the cover.
Published by Glendon Publishing, Copyright 1979, Softcover, 191 Pages, 5 1/4" x 8 1/2," B/W Illustrations. ISBN 0-934884-00-5
Book is in Very Good USED condition: Edgewear.
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