Sollitt was to be trainmaster, which involved the oversight and direction of the teams and drivers, and the duty of frequently going ahead to pick out the best road and select a favorable place to camp at night, where water and grass could be had.
"A Gold Hunter's Experience"
Chalkley J. Hambleton
He was a railroad man, anyway-a modest trainmaster-and not eager for stage-line management.
"Nan of Music Mountain"
Frank H. Spearman
True to form, he had cussed out the office boy, spoken in fatherly fashion to the trainmaster over the telephone about the lateness of No. 210, remarked to the stenographer that her last letter had looked like the exquisite tracks of a cow's hoof-and then he had read two telegrams.
"O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921"
Various