William Stewart Herron: Father of the Petroleum Industry in Alberta

Ed: Dr. David H. Breen, 1984 (HC 359 p)
ISBN 0-88864-959-2

In 1911, Herron began a life-long struggle to develop an oilfield west of his property near Okotoks, Alberta.

This collection of documents vividly illustrates the difficulties of the would-be oilman and how he miraculously managed to hang on through the lean times of capital shortages, primitive technology, a world war, a distant bureaucracy in Ottawa and the competition of big companies.