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Thunder on the Mountain (Hemlock County #4)

David Poyer

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Title	:	Thunder on the Mountain (Hemlock County #4)
Author	:	David Poyer
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 382 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1999 by Forge
Categories	:	Thriller. Historical. Action

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The western Pennsylvania oil country, the historic area where the American oil industry was founded, spawned Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller's fortune, and perhaps even the Sherman anti-trust laws, as well as generations of labor strife, but also borders some of the last virgin forest in the Eastern U.S. It is one of the cradles of the discontents of contemporary America.Now Poyer returns to the terrible winter of 1936, and the strike to organize the workers in the Thunder Oil Company after a refinery disaster exposes the company's neglect of workers' safety. Our hero, the Tom Joad-like W. T. Halvorsen, earns the nickname "Red" when he becomes a leader of the strike against Daniel Thunner's family company, a strike that draws national attention, and the arrival of professional strikebreaker Pearl Deatherage and of CIO organizer Doris Golden. As the strike spreads in scale and violence, Halvorsen, Thunner and their ideas of honor and morality are put to the test. This is a tough, penetrating, violent novel in the American tradition that goes from Jack London and John Steinbeck to E. L. Doctorow and Mary Lee Settle to, now, David Poyer

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Original Title:	Thunder On The Mountain (Hemlock County, #4)
ISBN:	0312864949 (ISBN13: 9780312864941)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Hemlock County #4

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Aka D.C. Poyer.DAVID CHARLES POYER was born in DuBois, PA in 1949. He grew up in Brockway, Emlenton, and Bradford, in western Pennsylvania, and graduated from Bradford Area High School in 1967. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1971, and later received a master's degree from George Washington University. Poyer's active and reserve naval service included sea duty in theThis is not the first of Poyer's "Hemlock County" novels, but the fourth. Some might think it the best, though, as it takes on some major themes of American life and literature--labor history, masculinity and wilderness and violence, wealth and poverty, power and powerlessness and how a community reacts to economic pressure. Our grandparents fought through the union/unionbusting/labor violence of the 1930s, and this book brings that era to life in the oil fields of western Pennsylvania.The prose

The first if his hemlock county books and it was very enjoyable.

I am a lifelong resident of McKean County, PAwhich when combined with Potter County is the setting of the Hemlock County series by David Poyer who lived in the area in his youth. The story follows Bill Holleran a young oil field worker and his involvement in the attempt to unionize the oil patch in 1936. I believe that this novel is filled with many truths of those times. It is still whispered about town that there was a time of trouble for the local refinery that resulted in division of

Considering the subject matter it is disappointing that the characters never develop into real people that are sympathetic. Poyer's powers as a writer seem to be used to better effect in relating the workings of oil drilling, explosives or the descriptions of the mountainous terrain or snowy woods in the dead of winter. So in the end it all seems so soulless.

#4 in the Hemlock County series.Hemlock County novels - W.T.Halvorsen, an oilfield worker in western PA, gets caught up with radical union organizer Doris Gurley Golden in a strike against the Thunder Oil Company. Owner Daniel Thunner brings in strikebreaker Pearl Deatherage.

This is not the first of Poyer's "Hemlock County" novels, but the fourth. Some might think it the best, though, as it takes on some major themes of American life and literature--labor history, masculinity and wilderness and violence, wealth and poverty, power and powerlessness and how a community reacts to economic pressure. Our grandparents fought through the union/unionbusting/labor violence of the 1930s, and this book brings that era to life in the oil fields of western Pennsylvania.The prose