TY - SER
KW - Pennsylvania oil rush
KW - Edwin Drake (1819-80)
KW - Samuel M. Kier (1813-74)
KW - Ben Hogan (1841-1916)
KW - John Wilkes Booth (1838-65)
KW - oil industry
KW - coal oil
AU - Leon McNierney
AB - Published for the Western Pennsylvania Oil Rush’s centennial year, this novel portrays the geologists, farmers, oil field workers, and fortune seekers of the time.
C1 - 1850s-80s
C3 - Allegheny River; Oil Creek (tributary); Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Armstrong County; Parker; Butler County; Petrolia; Crawford County; Titusville; Meadville; Erie County; Lake Erie; Erie; Corry; Venango County; Oil City; Franklin; Cornplanter Twp.; Pit
C4 - Historical
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Published for the Western Pennsylvania Oil Rush’s centennial year, this novel portrays the geologists, farmers, oil field workers, and fortune seekers of the time.
PB - Vantage Press
PP - New York
PY - 1958
RN - Leon McNierney (1899-1983) was a long time resident of Titusville, Crawford County.
EP - 127 p.
TI - Titusville 1859: A Novel about the Birth of the Oil Industry
ER -