Harry Ford Sinclair's father reared his younger son to be a small town druggist. But along with the pharmacy, the sire bequeathed his scion an overweening ambition, a gambler's courage, and an intuitive stubbornness perfectly suited to another destiny.

Fate was scarcely subtle with young Harry Sinclair. It caused him to lose the drug store in a speculation at age twenty, just as an oil boom enveloped the community. Freed of his confining inheritance, penniless, product of the schools of frontier Kansas, Sinclair read correctly the juxtaposition of his stars and attributes, and headed for the oil fields. Thus began one of the great careers of the American petroleum industry.

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