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The Valley of the Giants: Californian Story of the Gilded Age
The Valley of the Giants: Californian Story of the Gilded Age
The Valley of the Giants: Californian Story of the Gilded Age
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The Valley of the Giants is set on the edge of Humboldt Bay in the fictional town of Sequoia, California. Starting in 1850s, with John Cardigan founding the logging company to build a life for him and his son Bryce, the novel follows the ups and downs of the Cardigan family and the on-going rivalry with Colonel Pennington over logging rights and other business matters. When Bryce Cardigan returns home from the college he finds out that his father's company is in trouble and that Pennington is pushing them out of business. He must try to save the company and screw Colonel Pennington, while juggling a secret relationship with Shirley, Pennington's niece.
LanguageEnglish
Publishere-artnow
Release dateJul 8, 2019
ISBN4057664153630
The Valley of the Giants: Californian Story of the Gilded Age
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Peter B. Kyne

A native of San Francisco, Peter B. Kyne was a prolific screenwriter and the author of the 1920 bestseller Kindred of the Dust. His stories of Cappy Ricks and the Rick's Logging & Lumbering Company were serialized in The Saturday Evening Post and William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine. He died in 1957.

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