David Harum: A Story of American Life
| Title | David Harum: A Story of American Life |
| Year of Publication | 1898 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 392 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Westcott, Edward Noyes |
| Publisher | D. Appleton and Company |
| City | New York |
| Keywords | oil industry |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Author Biography | Edward Noyes Westcott (1847-98), born and died in Syracuse, was a local banker who, on a leave because of tuberculosis, recuperated by writing David Harum (1898) in the Adirondacks and in Italy. |
| Time | 1890s |
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