Big Strike

By Doris E. Arnold

On the first Sunday in March, 1926, Kelley came through the gate from the Fort Worth train and, after making a brief inquiry at the information desk in the Del Viento station, she joined the enormous crowd waiting to board the train to Big Strike.She was going home. Not that she had ever been to Big Strike, but after an absence of four years she was going back to the oil field, back to a boom town, and she was filled with such excitement that she could hardly contain herself. Kelley had lived in the oil-field boom towns all her life, she had dreamed of becoming a nurse in a boom town emergency hospital, and that dream was finally coming true. Kelley slipped easily and naturally into her new life in Big Strike. Working at the Emergency Hospital with Dr. Ben was interesting, absorbing. Now Kelley wanted to work on her next dream: to marry a rich man, but she had to love him. But Kelly drew men to herself as a magnet draws iron. She thought she would find such a man in Big Strike, or would she?This is a story of a romance that came about amongst the mesquite bushes and Spanish daggers, the derricks and slush pit fires, amongst the tents, the shacks, and the shanties ......BIG STRIKE....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1495430022
• ISBN13: 9781495430022
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 614 Pages
• Weight: 2.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.4" x 6.0"