Hemlock County cycle

The western Pennsylvania oil country is the historic area where the American oil industry was founded. It spawned Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller's fortune, and perhaps even the Sherman antitrust laws, as well as generations of labor strife. It is, therefore, one of the cradles of discontent in contemporary America.

In Thunder on the Mountain, a "stunning period tale" (Publishers Weekly), Poyer revisits the terrible winter