The Spotter: A Romance of the Oil Region

TitleThe Spotter: A Romance of the Oil Region
Year of Publication1907
Publication TypeNovel
Number of Pages or Episodes360 p.
LanguageEnglish
AuthorsCanfield, William Walker
PublisherR. F. Fenno & Company
CityNew York
Keywordsfarms; immigrants; legal profession; ministers; oil industry; Pennsylvania oil rush; physicians; Protestants; railroad industry; Scottish Americans
Abstract

Cygnet Oil sends spotters to McKean County to swindle farmers out of their land, although Scottish immigrant Duncan Cameron holds out the longest.
Notes

Mead Twp. is referred to as Kinzua, as it was then known.
Author Biography

William Walker Canfield (1855-1937), born and raised in Upstate New York, was the editor of the Utica Observer Dispatch as well as a novelist.
Time

1860s-70s

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