From 1860 to 1912, the Sargent family prospered until a disagreement over timberland ends with an explosion. These real-life stories recount what happens as they migrate from a farm in Vermont to the north woods of Wisconsin, adapting to that era's changes in technology, business and politics. Leonard Sargent writes candidly and respectfully of his family and their adventures at the turn of the 20th century. He was a train engineer, who ran the local opera house, organized a band, an orchestra and brought the first moving picture shows to Forest County. His father was a lumberjack, farmer,...