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title	:	Life and Death of an Oilman : The Career of E.W. Marland
author	:	Mathews, John Joseph.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806112387
print isbn13	:	9780806112381
ebook isbn13	:	9780585155968
language	:	English
subject	Marland, Ernest Whitworth,--1874-1941, Industrialists--United States--Biography, Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History.
publication date	:	1989
lcc	:	HD9570.M3M3 1992eb
ddc	:	338.4/76223382/092
subject	:	Marland, Ernest Whitworth,--1874-1941, Industrialists--United States--Biography, Petroleum industry and trade--United States--History.

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Page iii Life and Death of an Oilman The Career of E. W. Marland By John Joseph Mathews with drawings by J. Craig Sheppard UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS NORMAN

Page iv Books By John Joseph Mathews The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters (Norman, 1961) Life and Death of an Oilman: The Career of E. W. Marland (Norman, 1951) Talking to the Moon (Chicago, 1945; Norman, 1981) Sundown (New York, 1935; Norman, 1988) Wah'Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road (Norman, 1932) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mathews, John Joseph, 1895 Life and death of an oilman: the career of E.W. Marland / by John Joseph Mathews; with drawings by J. Craig Sheppard. p. cm. ISBN 0-8061-1238-7 (paper) 1. Marland, Ernest Whitworth, 1874-1941. 2. IndustrialistsUnited StatesBiography. 3. Petroleum industry and tradeUnited StatesHis tory. 1. Title. HD9570.M3M3 1992 338.4'76223382'092dc20 [B]89-70455 CIP Copyright 1951 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Page v To The People of Ponca City

Page vii PREFACE This account of the career of an oilman is really a personal impression rather than a biography constructed from documents. Ernest Whitworth Marland was at once a hero-to some, almost a god-and a man who inspired the most intense hatreds. Naturally, the information which I went forth to gather was found, on analysis, to be colored by the points of view of my informants. Nor would I deny that I myself, being entirely and gratefully human, have had my own personal paint box at my side during the writing of this story. Since one distills everything that comes to him through the intricate coils of his own being, there can be no perfect objectivity anyway. However, since I did depend much upon my own experiences and relations with Marland, I have tried to be very cautious and consciously objective in writing about him. I had to find the human being among the many pictures given me by the people who knew him well-most of them much better than I did. This process involved all of the problems encountered by those who work with living sources: on the one hand, I had to cut off his devil's tail, reshape his cloven hooves, and give him the human quality of sympathy; and on the other, to snip off his wings and throw his nimbus away-in effect, to secularize him. Gossip was everywhere for the taking. Publicity had played upon him like a searchlight, because his life at times had the essentials for Greek drama. Humans are ever eager about the details of love and tragedy, which caused many to offer more

Page viii than they knew-a kind of dramatized truth rather than an embellishment of it. But there is nothing profane about warm and living information. Even ancient documents, once thought by scholars to be sacred, are now found not to be derived from God but to have originated with men, who possessed-or suffered from-all the failings of men: blindness and vanity and self-interest. Because a letter was written during an earlier age by a hypocrite, a fanatic, a snob, or an honest man of single conviction and has lain in some archive until yellowed with age does not imbue it with sanctity. The truth is hardly ever single, it is almost always refracted, and that last imperfectly. It was a rare piece of good fortune which permitted me, during Marland's lifetime, to review with him the story of his failure in both West Virginia and Oklahoma. His failure as governor, I saw. I was not so much attracted by his historical or economic importance, whatever weight either may have, as by his personality. Perhaps I was attracted by the difference between him and other acquisitive builders of an earlier period in the Age of Freedom. He was not a Jim Fisk, a Jay Gould, a Daniel Drew, a Cornelius Vanderbilt; he missed a great deal of being an Andrew Mellon, a Collis P. Huntington, an H.A.W. Tabor, or a John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Not only was he not their equal in stature, but he came upon the scene when the range-land of economic freedom was being fenced. He saw, in fact, what the other builders never dreamed could happen-the end of the Age of Freedom-and he personalized it in his own end. He saw the barriers closing in and talked about it often.

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