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World's richest Indian : the scandal over Jackson Barnett's oil fortune

text World's richest Indian : the scandal over Jackson Barnett's oil fortune

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When the Cushing Oil Field was discovered in Oklahoma in 1911, Jackson Barnett, an illiterate Creek Indian, began receiving large royalties. When he was declared incompetent, and later eloped and moved to Los Angeles, it led to years of court case... Read more
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xvi, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Oxford University Press 2003

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 970.1 BAR in Adult Non-fiction Available

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