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Thunder on the Mountain

by David Poyer · 1999

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Oil workers battle company goons in a labor conflict in 1930s Pennsylvania. It happens after five workers die in an accident at the Thunder Oil refinery, where management is penny-pinching on safety measures to increase profits. Leading the strikers is union organizer Doris Golden and driller Bill Halvorsen, their joint struggle giving birth to love.

Genre
adventureadventureMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaMore like thisLess of this
Subject
politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 432 pages

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