LOGAN'S WAY - ROBERT N. TOMS IN SOUTH AFRICA

 Logan's Way The Life and Times of J.D. Logan...a Matjiesfontein Chronicle - Robert N. Toms - 2010 - Paperback in very good -  condition. "In 1884, young immigrant Scot, James Logan, purchased land at "a place called Matjesfontein", an insignificant railway halt in the depths of the Karoo. The Cape Government Railways had, by then, reached the Kimberley diamond fields, and - following Cecil Rhodes' vision of the "road to the North", his dream of a Cape to Cairo line - was extending into the Zambezi hinterland. Logan, whose meteoric rise was based on an energetic and meticulous efficiency, had been awarded the government catering contract at Touws River, which lies within the vast spaces of the Karoo."