{"product_id":"life-and-death-of-an-oil-man-the-career-of-e-w-marland","title":"Life and Death of an Oil Man: The Career of E.W. Marland","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of America's most colorful oilmen was Ernest Whitworth Marland, a man who had much in common with other industrial giants of his age-- the Mellons, Rockefellers, the Morgans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving to Ponca City, Oklahoma, from Pennsylvania shortly after the turn of the century, Marland quickly found oil on the lands of the Ponca and the Osage Indians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE.W. Marland was a man of paradox--an advocate of unhampered oil exploration but also a champion of oil conservation, a man who lived in luxury but espoused the common causes of his idol, Franklin D. Roosevelt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMathews, John Joseph:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Joseph Mathews\u003c\/strong\u003e, who died in 1979, was one of Oklahoma's genuinely gifted writers. He was the author of \u003cem\u003eWah' Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road, \u003c\/em\u003ea poetic description in prose of the spiritual life of the Indian, and a Book-of the-Month Club selection in 1932. His other books include \u003cem\u003eLife and Death of an Oilman: The Career of E. W. Marland \u003c\/em\u003e(1951), about the controversial governor of Oklahoma and the founder of the company that later became known as Conoco, and \u003cem\u003eThe Osages: Children of the Middle Waters \u003c\/em\u003e(1961), a narrative history of his tribe. \u003cem\u003eTalking to the Moon \u003c\/em\u003ewas first published in 1945 and is reissued with a foreword by Elizabeth Mathews, his widow. Mathews was the great-grandson of Old Bill Williams, a noted frontiersman, and was a mixed-blood Osage. For many years he served as a member of the Osage Tribal Council. Educated at the University of Oklahoma in geology and at Merton College, Oxford, where he took his degree in natural sciences, Mathews was a fine American blend of scientist and poet, philosopher and producer, historian and storyteller, Indian and white.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328501715218,"sku":"9780806112381","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5475a16f-6a9f-4857-8547-a9b139c80850.jpg?v=1727742569","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/life-and-death-of-an-oil-man-the-career-of-e-w-marland","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}