TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - flatboats
KW - American Civil War
KW - Pennsylvania oil rush
KW - immigrants
KW - World War I
KW - Irish Americans
KW - orphans
KW - nuns
KW - oil industry
KW - priests
AU - Taylor Caldwell
AB - This rags-to-riches, <em>New York Times</em> bestseller traces Irish immigrant Joseph Armaugh from the 1850s to the 1890s as he establishes his empire in the Western Pennsylvania Oil Rush and becomes the founding father of a powerful Irish-American clan. Armaugh’s son is assassinated during his campaign to become the first Catholic president.
C1 - 1850s-1910s
C3 - Allegheny River; Oil Creek (tributary); Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Crawford County; Titusville; Venango County; Cornplanter Twp.; Pithole
C4 - Saga; Historical; War; Romance; Immigrant
CY - Garden City, NY
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - This rags-to-riches, <em>New York Times</em> bestseller traces Irish immigrant Joseph Armaugh from the 1850s to the 1890s as he establishes his empire in the Western Pennsylvania Oil Rush and becomes the founding father of a powerful Irish-American clan. Armaugh’s son is assassinated during his campaign to become the first Catholic president.
PB - Doubleday & Company, Inc.
PP - Garden City, NY
PY - 1972
RN - Taylor Caldwell (1900-1985), born in Manchester, England, emigrated to America and graduated from the University of Buffalo. In 1937 Maxwell Perkins accepted her first manuscript, a Pittsburgh novel called <em>Dynasty of Death</em>, and it launched her productive career: more than 40 novels with sales of more than 30 million copies. She wrote bestselling historical romances, family sagas, biographical novels, and Christian fiction. She died in Greenwich, Connecticut.
EP - 695 p.
TI - Captains and Kings
ER -