The Long Fight by G. W. Ogden
For years, old Solomon Heiskell told anyone who would listen that his land had oil in it. After years of drilling, and finding nothing but dirt and rock, his son Ared gave up the dream and took up sheep farming, even as so much oil was being discovered a few miles away that Oil City sprang up overnight. But when his flock is slaughtered in the night, and his father vanishes, Ared uses his remaining capital to buy a drilling rig and hire out to any of the smaller landowners in the area that will have him. The big money doesn't want competition from wildcatters, they want control. And his father's reputation as an eccentric shadows the son.
But come what may, Ared Heiskell has signed on for — The Long Fight!
First iktaPOP edition: 28 August 2024