TY - SER
KW - physicians
KW - Pennsylvania oil rush
KW - railroad industry
KW - ministers
KW - legal profession
KW - immigrants
KW - farms
KW - Scottish Americans
KW - oil industry
KW - Protestants
AU - William Walker Canfield
AB - Cygnet Oil sends spotters to McKean County to swindle farmers out of their land, although Scottish immigrant Duncan Cameron holds out the longest.
C1 - 1860s-70s
C3 - Allegheny River; Allegheny Mountains; Bradford County; Piney Twp.; Shamburg; Clarion County; Clarion; Forest County; Tionesta; McKean County; Lewis Run; Foster Twp.; Derrick City; Venango County; Oil City; Cornplanter Twp.; Pithole; Warren County; Tidioute; Mead Twp.
C4 - Historical; Romance
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Mead Twp. is referred to as Kinzua, as it was then known.
N2 - Cygnet Oil sends spotters to McKean County to swindle farmers out of their land, although Scottish immigrant Duncan Cameron holds out the longest.
PB - R. F. Fenno & Company
PP - New York
PY - 1907
RN - William Walker Canfield (1855-1937), born and raised in Upstate New York, was the editor of the Utica <em>Observer Dispatch</em> as well as a novelist.
EP - 360 p.
TI - The Spotter: A Romance of the Oil Region
ER -