OP.
MATHEWS, JOHN JOSEPH. _Life and Death of an Oilman: The Career
of E. W. Marland_, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1951.
Mature in style and in interpretative power, John Joseph
Mathews goes into the very life of an oilman who was something
else.
RISTER, C. C. _Oil! Titan of the Southwest_, University of
Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1949. Facts in factual form. Plenty of
oil wealth and taxes; nothing on oil government.
SHINN, CHARLES H. _Mining Camps_, 1885, reprinted by Knopf,
New York, 1948. Perhaps the most competent analysis extant on
the behavior of the gold hunters, with emphasis on their self-
government. _The Story of the Mine as Illustrated by the Great
Comstock Lode of Nevada_, New York, 1896. OP. Shinn knew and
he knew also how to combine into form.
STUART, GRANVILLE. _Forty Years on the Frontier_, Cleveland,
1925. Superb on California and Montana hunger for precious
metals. OP.
TAIT, SAMUEL W. _Wildcatters: An Informal History of Oil-
Hunting in America_, Princeton University Press, 1946. OP.
TWAIN, MARK. _Roughing It_. The mining boom itself.
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Nature; Wild Life; Naturalists
"NO MAN," says Mary Austin, "has ever really entered into the
heart of any country until he has adopted or made up myths
about its familiar objects.
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