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table of contents
  1. Half Title Page
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures and Tables
  7. Introduction: “The Wildest Boom That Ever Hit the West”
  8. 1 “Scientific Oil Finding:” Turner Valley’s Anticline
  9. 2 “The Formation of These Companies . . . Should be Stopped:” Speculation and the Newspaper Feud
  10. 3 “The Difference Between Poverty and Riches is Action!” Dreams and Reality of an Independent Oil Boom
  11. 4 “I’m Going to Go Through With It Even if it Leads to Jail:” George E. Buck of Black Diamond Oil Fields
  12. 5 “A City So Blessed Cannot be Checked:” Oil! . . . Sort of
  13. 6 Reign of the Charlatans
  14. 7 Boycotts, Consumer Protection, and Private Detectives: Responses to the Boom, from Voluntary Associations to the Pinkertons
  15. 8 Reforming Self-Regulation: Taming the Brokers and the Calgary Stock Exchange
  16. 9 Public Interest Versus Private Rights: Judge Alexander A. Carpenter’s Commission and the Big Boom’s Big Hangover
  17. 10 “I am Not Going Back to Canada:” The Law Comes for Buck
  18. 11 “A Matter of Public Concern:” The Lees Commission and Monarch Oil
  19. 12 “The Most Important that has Ever Been Tried in the Province:” The Trial of George Buck
  20. 13 “It is to be Regretted that Such a Scoundrel Should Escape Punishment:” Buck’s Appeals
  21. 14 Conclusion: Buck and the Boom
  22. Acknowledgements
  23. Bibliography
  24. Notes
  25. Index

Energy Histories, Cultures, and Politics

Series Editor:

Petra Dolata, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary

ISSN 2562-3486 (Print) ISSN 2562-3494 (Online)

This series features original research at the intersection of energy and society. It welcomes works that contribute to international discussions on the history, culture, and politics of energy and speaks to the energy humanities and energy social sciences. The series has a strong interest in, but is not limited to, North American issues.

No. 1 Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880
Graham D. Taylor

No. 2 Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy and History
Edited by Amelia M. Kiddle

No. 3 The Boom: Oil, Popular Culture, and Politics in Alberta, 1912–1924
Paul Chastko

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