The Divining Rod: A Story of the Oil Regions
| Title | The Divining Rod: A Story of the Oil Regions |
| Year of Publication | 1905 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 356 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Thorpe, Francis Newton |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, and Company |
| City | Boston |
| Keywords | children of unmarried parents; circuit rider preachers; farms; mystics; oil industry; Pennsylvania oil rush; Protestants; railroad industry; wealthy people |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| Time | 1800s |
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