Carson of Red River

Kit Carson is a shipbuilding engineer in his father's shipyard in Scotland. He was in charge of designing a new boiler for a steamship under contract to a foreign government. The government purchased one from Kit's company and one from a competitor. The fastest ship will get a contract for more. One design element Kit wanted to include was denied by management. But in a speed test the competing ship got up to speed faster and sailed faster as well. Kit is accused wrongly of selling his plans to the competitor. Management needing a scapegoat fires him. He emigrates to Canada and gets an engineering job the railroad. His first major test is a doozy and even Kit does not know whether his design will work. Never fear however: there is a romance tripping its way through the pages.