Title | The Devil's Hat: A Sketch in Oil |
Year of Publication | 1887 |
Publication Type | Novel |
Number of Pages or Episodes | 328 p. |
Language | English |
Authors | Philips, Melville |
Publisher | Ticknor and Company |
City | Boston |
Keywords | oil industry; Pennsylvania oil rush |
Abstract | Two former law students, Ogden and Joyce, seek to become the first to strike oil in the Devil’s Hat—a small isolated sandy plain with volcanic disturbance of the strata. |
Author Biography | Melville Philips was an author. |
Time | 1860s-70s |