TY - SER
KW - Pennsylvania oil rush
KW - railroad industry
KW - circuit rider preachers
KW - mystics
KW - children of unmarried parents
KW - farms
KW - wealthy people
KW - oil industry
KW - Protestants
AU - Francis Newton Thorpe
AB - When Elder Blaisdon, a local Methodist mystic, follows his divining rod to where Helen Bostwick, a poor farmer's daughter, sits on a hill, new oil is discovered and turns the Bostwicks nouveau riche. Helen is then courted by several young men hoping to marry into her family’s oil company.
C1 - 1800s
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny River; Venango County; Oil Creek (tributary); Oil City; Crawford County; Titusville
C4 - Historical; Romance
CY - Boston
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - When Elder Blaisdon, a local Methodist mystic, follows his divining rod to where Helen Bostwick, a poor farmer's daughter, sits on a hill, new oil is discovered and turns the Bostwicks nouveau riche. Helen is then courted by several young men hoping to marry into her family’s oil company.
PB - Little, Brown, and Company
PP - Boston
PY - 1905
RN - Francis Newton Thorpe (1857-1926), born in Massachusetts, was a lawyer, legal scholar, historian, political scientist, and novelist. He was a professor of constitutional history at the University of Pennsylvania. Thorpe owned a summer home in North East, Erie County, where he established a grape farm, "Indian Arrow Vineyards."
EP - 356 p.
TI - The Divining Rod: A Story of the Oil Regions
ER -