The Tin Box
A Story of Texas Cattle and Oil
By Jerome Aredell Williams
With contributions by Daisi Pollard Sepulveda
A discovery in a flooded river unsettles a family’s future.
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The story
What the river reveals.
Texas, in the oil boom of the 1950s. Rancher Tom Meredith discovers a battered metal container floating down a flooded river. Its contents reveal secrets and betrayals that reach into his family’s future.
His daughter June’s lost inheritance, the schemes of a man enriched at others’ expense, and a love triangle involving a financier and a ranch hand draw the story across a landscape of cattle, oil, and shifting fortunes. Family loyalties meet business ambition in a novel rooted in a particular time and place.
For readers of historical fiction drawn to Texas ranch life, family intrigue, and the pull of inheritance.
Within these pages
- A mystery set during the Texas oil boom.
- Inheritance, family loyalties, and hidden betrayals.
- Ranch life and business ambition in a changing Texas.
The author & the legacy
Jerome Aredell Williams
Originally written by Jerome Aredell Williams, Daisi Pollard Sepulveda’s great-grandfather, The Tin Box carries a family’s literary legacy forward. Daisi’s contributions add historical context and help bring the story to another generation of readers.
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