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Dark side of fortune : triumph and scandal in the life of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny / Margaret Leslie Davis. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Margaret Leslie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doheny, Edward L. (Edward Laurence), 1856-1935.
- Doheny, Edward L.
- Industrialists--United States--Biography.
- Industrialists.
- Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Petroleum industry and trade--California, Southern--History.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Mexico--History.
- Teapot Dome Scandal, 1921-1924.
- Petroleum industry and trade--History--California, Southern.
- Petroleum industry and trade--History--Mexico.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 339 p., [32] p. of plates ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Doheny built was one of the early oil barons in Mexico and the United States before becoming embroiled in the Teapot Dome scandal.
- Contents:
- Prologue: September 11, 19.5
- Part 1: La calavera del conquistador
- The young prospector Doheny
- Her coldest welcome
- Rivers of Black Gold
- Spoony visits
- The golden lane
- Powered by oil
- Millionas made knowing how
- Part 2: La calavera del comerciante
- Perfectly legal
- The $100,000 bagatelle
- Gaps in the record
- Scared rich man
- The last appeal
- Part 3: La calavera del final
- Night of terror
- A broken and changed man
- The final trial.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-323) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-520-92705-2
- 0-585-27199-2
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