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Texas Oil and Gas (Postcard History)

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Texas Oil and Gas documents in postcards the rapid growth of the Texas petroleum industry from its beginnings near Corsicana within the 1890s through the following a couple of decades of oil booms right through the state. The young 20th century opened with the Lucas Gusher at Spindletop in 1901. Thousands rushed from the oilfields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia to search out work and riches. Continued drilling success along the Texas Gulf Coast transformed Houston into an immense city and the Beaumont area into an immense petrochemical center. In the course of the 1910s and 1920s, oil booms occurred in North Texas, the Panhandle, Central Texas, and West Texas. The giant East Texas oilfield, the second one largest North American oilfield to Alaskas North Slope, was once came upon in 1930. Texas oil replaced coal as fuel for the nations railroads and provided fuel for our military in two world wars.

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