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Argent – The Last of the Swamp Rats. By Mallory Hope Ferrell

Copyright 1994. Published by Pacific Fast Mail

Hardcover book with dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket are very good condition. No markings. Illustrated throughout with black & white photos, includes some color photos.  144 pages.

The narrow gauge Argent Lumber Company railroad ran out of Hardeeville, SC beginning in 1916 -ending in 1958. The Argent Lumber Company railroad was everything a narrow gauge  buff could hope for – tiny locomotives, beat-up equipment, weather-worn shops and rickety track in a primeval Deep South setting. When Mal Ferrell paid a visit in the summer of 1955 it was already a rolling relic from a bygone era. Fortunately Argent was around long enough for well-known photographers to preserve on film this folksey, backwoods shortline.

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