Saga of the Soo, Vol. I - West from Shoreham by John A. Gjevre

Saga of the Soo Volume I: West From Shoreham offers a remarkable glimpse into the history of the Soo Line Railroad and its predecessors in Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana. With twenty pages in color including railroad art by Larry Fisher and a dramatic front piece by Howard Fogg, this second edition of the first volume immerses the reader in the golden age of the Soo. It also offers insights into depot design, galleries of caboose and locomotives as well as a synoptic economic history of the Soo. Additional features include a look at the role of the Soo in the irst and second world wars, the Soo's Social Life and Circus Time on the Old Soo.

Originally published in 1973, West From Shoreham examines the Soo Line Railroad in the Dakotas and Minnesota as an entity, chronicling its origins as a small dream that grew into a vast capillary network of freight transport and passenger rail. By the mid 1980s, it became apparent that the original edition was in very high demand, but unfortunately no additional copies of the book remained available for purchase. Realizing that ther were many pieces of the Saga left untold, the author decided not only to reprint the text, but to increase the breadth of the text greatly, adding 40% more text and many new photographs. During that period of research it became clear that the "Saga" would likely require three volumes for completeness and as such he began to simultaneously research and plan the structure of Volume II: Three Generations West which was published in 1995.