TY - SER KW - Roman Catholics KW - flatboats KW - Pennsylvania Railroad 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 - A television adaption of the 1972 novel, which traces Irish immigrant Joseph Armaugh (Richard Jordan) 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, Rory (Perry King), is assassinated during his campaign to become the first Catholic president. C1 - 1850s-1910s C2 - unpublished C3 - Allegheny River; Oil Creek (tributary); Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Crawford County; Titusville; Venango County; Cornplanter Twp.; Pithole C4 - Saga; Historical; War; Romance; Immigrant LA - English M3 - Television Script N1 - Jordan won the Golden Globe for Best TV Actor. The series also stars Patty Duke, Blair Brown, Jane Seymour, and Henry Fonda. N2 - A television adaption of the 1972 novel, which traces Irish immigrant Joseph Armaugh (Richard Jordan) 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, Rory (Perry King), is assassinated during his campaign to become the first Catholic president. PY - 1976 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 Dynasty of Death, 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. TI - Captains and Kings ER -