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Escaping Strange Creek
Escaping Strange Creek is a novel about the Jarvis Family and their struggle to overcome adversity in the poverty-stricken coal fields of West Virginia in the 1890’s.
Myra Boggs Jarvis was dying and she knew it. She had held off death for months waiting to see her son Daniel, just one more time. Every night, she prayed, “Dear God in heaven, let my boy come home just one more time. Amen.”
Twenty-four-year old Daniel Jarvis arrived back in Strange Creek after serving five years in the state penitentiary for accusing a rich man’s son of burning his crop, to find his mother living in poverty after being evicted from her home by her step-children. The day she died, he took his revenge on their persecutors and left West Virginia one step ahead of the law, robbing banks as he went.
He settled in the Four Corners region of New Mexico, where two of his children died of disease, one drowned and the last was killed in World War 11. After the death of their children, Daniel and his wife Judith adopted his dead sister’s grandson, Mathew Simpson to help in their struggle against rustlers and kidnappers.
The kidnappers were hired by his boyhood nemesis, Eugene Rankin, from Strange Creek, whose cohort is a gigolo and cold-blooded killer. Thirty-five years after Daniel’s death, Mathew’s children and grandchildren have to fight off crooked lawyers and scamming relatives filing a frivolous lawsuit, trying to claim a share of the huge ranch.
Myra Boggs Jarvis was dying and she knew it. She had held off death for months waiting to see her son Daniel, just one more time. Every night, she prayed, “Dear God in heaven, let my boy come home just one more time. Amen.”
Twenty-four-year old Daniel Jarvis arrived back in Strange Creek after serving five years in the state penitentiary for accusing a rich man’s son of burning his crop, to find his mother living in poverty after being evicted from her home by her step-children. The day she died, he took his revenge on their persecutors and left West Virginia one step ahead of the law, robbing banks as he went.
He settled in the Four Corners region of New Mexico, where two of his children died of disease, one drowned and the last was killed in World War 11. After the death of their children, Daniel and his wife Judith adopted his dead sister’s grandson, Mathew Simpson to help in their struggle against rustlers and kidnappers.
The kidnappers were hired by his boyhood nemesis, Eugene Rankin, from Strange Creek, whose cohort is a gigolo and cold-blooded killer. Thirty-five years after Daniel’s death, Mathew’s children and grandchildren have to fight off crooked lawyers and scamming relatives filing a frivolous lawsuit, trying to claim a share of the huge ranch.
478 pages, Paperback
First published March 15, 2013
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Dick Metheney
7 books6 followersDick Metheney (Quaker City, Ohio). An avid reader all his life, Dick has only in recent years turned to writing.
He is the author of four fictional novels and numerous short stories and newspaper articles. He is a charter member of the Rainy Day writers.
He is the author of four fictional novels and numerous short stories and newspaper articles. He is a charter member of the Rainy Day writers.
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June 2, 2013
Finished the book the other day.
The story is basically about the Jarvis family and all the other family members that branch out into the Family Tree since the late 1800s.
The story doesn't have a real plot to speak of except the family problems that keep poppying up.
If you like Soap type stories - then this might be the one for you. After Dan Jarvis escapes to the west with his stolen money he settles down in the Four Corners area of the West as a Big time Rancher. At that point it becomes your Soap Opera type story.
Wish I could give this book a 4 or 5 but I'm not really into this type of Fiction. My Apologies to the Author, Dick Metheney for the 3 rating I gave this book. However, I did read the book from front to cover.
And I did recieve this as a Free book from Goodreads.com.
The story is basically about the Jarvis family and all the other family members that branch out into the Family Tree since the late 1800s.
The story doesn't have a real plot to speak of except the family problems that keep poppying up.
If you like Soap type stories - then this might be the one for you. After Dan Jarvis escapes to the west with his stolen money he settles down in the Four Corners area of the West as a Big time Rancher. At that point it becomes your Soap Opera type story.
Wish I could give this book a 4 or 5 but I'm not really into this type of Fiction. My Apologies to the Author, Dick Metheney for the 3 rating I gave this book. However, I did read the book from front to cover.
And I did recieve this as a Free book from Goodreads.com.
August 19, 2013
Won through Goodreads give away. Wasn't sure I'd like it but was pleasantly surprised. I was glad to see the story didn't go like I thought it would.
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