Historic Photos of Texas Oil

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On January 10, 1901, near Beaumont, Texas, an unremarkable knoll of earth the world would soon call Spindletop shot a geyser of oil a hundred feet into the air, confirming the belief of Pattillo Higgins that black gold lay buried there. The Texas oil industry had begun in earnest, and neither Texas nor the world would ever be the similar. In the years yet to come, Texas oil would fuel the nation’s automobiles and lend a hand to bring victory to the Allies in both world wars, shaping The united states’s destiny all through the twentieth century. Sign up for writer and historian Mike Cox on this photographic seek advice from to the heyday of Texas crude as he recounts the stories of key oil-patch discoveries around the state. Nearly 200 images in vivid black-and-white, with captions and introductions, offer a roughneck-close take a look at this uniquely American tale of dry holes and gushers, ragtowns and riches, boomtowns, blowouts, and wildcatters gone broke.

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