And Franklin Tarbell was a very religious man and he was a by the book bible man. And this general upheaval made Ida wonder what -- who was right. And so she decided she would find out for herself ...

Born in a log home in Hatch Hollow, northwestern Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell grew up amid the derricks of the Oil Region. Her father, Frank Tarbell, built wooden oil ...