The Divining Rod: A Story of the Oil Regions
| Year of Publication |
1905
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
356 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Francis Newton Thorpe |
| Publisher |
Little, Brown, and Company
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| City |
Boston
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| Abstract |
When Elder Blaisdon, a local Methodist mystic, follows his divining rod to where Helen Bostwick, a poor farmer's daughter, sits on a hill, new oil is discovered and turns the Bostwicks nouveau riche. Helen is then courted by several young men hoping to marry into her family’s oil company.
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| Author Biography |
Francis Newton Thorpe (1857-1926), born in Massachusetts, was a lawyer, legal scholar, historian, political scientist, and novelist. He was a professor of constitutional history at the University of Pennsylvania. Thorpe owned a summer home in North East, Erie County, where he established a grape farm, "Indian Arrow Vineyards."
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| Time |
1800s
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