Trippin’ Through the Oil Patch: A Boy Remembers His Dad Audiobook Libro.fm

Each chapter of Trippin through the Oil Patch is a story all by itself But each story links with the next as the book reveals the life of transient laborers in the Rocky Mountain oil fields during the 1940s and 50s While war mounted and raged in Europe and the Pacific oil field kids moved with their dads and moms to one oil patch and trailer camp after another chasing black gold to fuel a nation at war
With each story the narrator Raymond moves closer to the end of his oil field days when at the age of twelve his dad is killed in an oil rig explosion In Trippin Gayle whose childhood is the basis of this memoir says I was afraid that I would forget my father I would never speak with him again I would never hear his voice With these stories I could keep talking with my dad I could hold on to his presence until I could walk on alone His stories saved me