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Oil!

Oil!

Sinclair, Upton

Paperback

Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1957990570
ISBN13: 9781957990576
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jan 1 2023
Pages: 486
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The book is loosely based on the life of Edward L. Doheny (and the company he co-founded, Pan American Petroleum & Transport Company, the California assets of which became Pan American Western Petroleum Company), and also the strategic alliance Union-Independent Producers Agency, a consortium created in 1910 to bring oil via pipeline from Kern County to the Pacific Coast facilities of Union Oil Company at Port Harford (now called Port San Luis just west of Avila Beach).Numerous parallels exist between the opening setting of the novel, Beach City, and the city of Huntington Beach. Huntington Beach was originally called Pacific City, for which Beach City is a play off of both names. The novel states that the area had street names like Telegraph and Beach City Blvd. Telegraph Road would be the last street crossed before getting off the highway onto Beach Blvd in the town of Buena Park to travel south to Huntington Beach. James Arnold Ross and Bunny stay in a hotel at the intersection of Beach City Blvd and Coast Drive, similar to Beach Blvd and what would later develop into Pacific Coast Highway, where a hotel and water resort once resided in the early 1900s. In the novel, Beach City is covered in beet and cabbage fields. Huntington Beach historically was covered in beet and celery fields. In the novel, the primary oil field found is on Prospect Hill. The first confirmed oil wells in Huntington Beach were located on a series of bluffs.The character of Eli Watkins is loosely based on the famous evangelist Aimee McPherson.

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