[Rarebooks] fs: Pennsylvania land fraud, oil companies, soldiers' records...

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 9191 )  May, Lioy. MISPLACED GLORY: THE LOST SOLDIERS OF 1847-1865 IN 
THE PENNSYLVANIA OIL REGION, WITH AUTHENTIC PROOFS BY ANCIENT DOCUMENTS, 
OFFICIAL RECORDS AND OTHER ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS (INSCRIBED AND SIGNED).
Philadelphia: (s.n.), 1944. First printing, Full cloth, Octavo, [xviii], 353 
pages, black & white photographs, facsimiles, maps. Good, No dust jacket.
      Interesting allegation of an enormous land and mineral rights fraud in 
Pennsylvania's oil region, perpetrated by oil companies through the use of 
soldiers' discharge papers and land grants after the Civil War. The author 
uncovered the evidence herein while researching her great-uncle, Benjamin W. 
Goodman, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars whose vital records had 
vanished. Information on the Lincoln Administration's intent as to the 
Pennsylvania oil lands, John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil, the vanished 
soldiers cemetery at Valley Forge, Jay Cooke and the Northern Pacific 
Railroad, a mention of John Wilkes Booth in the oil regions, and much more. 
Numerous fold-out maps. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on 
verso of front free endpaper. The inscription is to Senator Robert A. Taft 
of Ohio. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with spine and upper board 
lettered in gilt, spine gilt is somewhat darkened. Fore corners of boards 
have shallow bumps, some overall spotting to cloth, otherwise clean and 
sound....... $150.00
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