There were likely a lot of men like Robert Granier who helped build America. Rugged and stoic men, somewhat nomadic laborers who roamed from job to job, sawing trees one season and hammering railroad spikes into the ground the next. They worked in groups yet kept to themselves, watching silently as their fellow migrant workers tamed the land by day and laughed by campfire light at night. Many never settled down. Others, like Granier, married and planned futures around their families. Some of those futures came to pass. Some did not. All of these men who toiled in the early part of the 20th century lived and loved and paved the way for a nation, one callous and blister at a time. All of them had stories.

An adaptation of Denis Johnson’s award-winning 2011 novella, Train Dreams trails alo

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