The Rise of Ransom City

About this book

This is the story Harry Ransom. If you know his name its most likely as the inventor of the Ransom Process a stroke of genius that changed the world. Or you may have read about how he lost the battle of Jasper City or won it depending on where you stand in matters of politics.Friends called him Hal or Harry or by one of a half-dozen aliases of which he had more than any honest man should. He often went by Professor Harry Ransom and though he never had anything you might call a formal education he definitely earned it. If youre reading this in the future Ransom City must be a great and glittering metropolis by now with a big bronze statue of Harry Ransom in a park somewhere. You might be standing on its sidewalk and not wonder in the least of how it grew to its current glory. Well here is its story full of adventure and intrigue. And it all starts with the day that old Harry Ransom crossed paths with Liv Alverhyusen and John Creedmoo