TY - SER
KW - oil industry
AU - Edward Noyes Westcott
AB - David Harum is a small-town banker, horse trader, sage, and charlatan who solves everyone’s problems but his own. While most of the novel is set near Syracuse, one subplot takes place in Western Pennsylvania where Harum guides a young man to oil wealth.
C1 - 1890s
C3 - Western Pennsylvania
C4 - Literary; Comedy
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - David Harum is a small-town banker, horse trader, sage, and charlatan who solves everyone’s problems but his own. While most of the novel is set near Syracuse, one subplot takes place in Western Pennsylvania where Harum guides a young man to oil wealth.
PB - D. Appleton and Company
PP - New York
PY - 1898
RN - Edward Noyes Westcott (1847-98), born and died in Syracuse, was a local banker who, on a leave because of tuberculosis, recuperated by writing <em>David Harum</em> (1898) in the Adirondacks and in Italy.
EP - 392 p.
TI - David Harum: A Story of American Life
ER -