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OIL BARON OF THE SOUTHWEST: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise) - Hardcover
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Doheny was famous as the best oilman of his generation. In 1893, he became the first person to successfully drill for oil in Los Angeles, and he led the development of Southern California's major oil fields. He went to Mexico in 1900 and carved out an empire that over the next twenty years produced more oil than any other company in the world.
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Given the magnitude of his achievements, both the notable and the dubious, Edward Doheny remains a surprisingly obscure figure in U.S. history. At the start of this century, he had developed every major oil field in Southern California and built a huge oil empire in Mexico; and he was credited with having discovered more oil than any other living person. He was also the major player in the Teapot Dome scandal, which tainted the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Little has been written about Doheny; at his request, his wife burned almost all of his papers after his death. There is Dan La Botz's Edward L. Doheny: Petroleum, Power, and Politics in the United States and Mexico (1991), a work that relied heavily on secondary sources and archives of the U.S. Department of State. But Ansell, a history teacher at Brookhaven College in Dallas, labels La Botz's work the "apotheosis of the negative tradition . . . written from the political left." He sets out to reevaluate Doheny's role in history and rehabilitate his image. David Rouse
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