Chinamans Bluff

The setting is central Wisconsin during the Great Depression. Like most towns, the inhabitants of Chandlers Bend are hanging on, making due with what little they have, waiting for the day when prosperity returns. Once a hub of robust rail traffic, now it simply became an X on the map the interlacement of two railroads, further split by a state highway. Those who stayed either lacked the good sense to leave or the resources to do so.
Then one day a stranger arrived who had the resources to leave, but stayed and changed the town forever. But a town without tales ceases to survive.