A Kansas David in the field
Henry Harrison Tucker Jr., as the youthful David with sling, confronts John D. Rockefeller, as Goliath, holding a large club labeled “Standard Oil.”
Comments and Context
In the same way that history largely remembers Thomas W. Lawson as a crusader who wrote his articles and book “Frenzied Finance” as an expose of Wall Street corruption — but was actually a non-apologetic bit of revenge on his former partners in mining trusts — so is Henry Harrison Tucker, Junior, often recalled (if at all) as the little David of the oil fields challenging big, bad John D. Rockefeller. So in Puck cartoonist J. S. Pughe depicted the blonde-haired loner.