The Spotter: A Romance of the Oil Region

Year of Publication
1907
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
360 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
R. F. Fenno & Company
City
New York
Genre
Keywords
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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