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Pennsylvania's oil heritage : stories from the headache post / Sean K. Miller.
Lippincott Library HD9567.P4 M55 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Sean, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum industry and trade--Pennsylvania--History.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Biography.
- History.
- Pennsylvania.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- In 1859, Edwin L. Drake drilled an opening into the western Pennsylvania earth, forever altering the global landscape. The petroleum treasure buried underneath was oil, transforming these rugged hills into the setting of the "black gold rush." Pennsylvania's oil region was the location of America's first oil boom and was the world's leader in the development of oil production between 1859 and 1901.
- This collection of stories relates to the people, places and events in western Pennsylvania's Allegheny River Valley and how this scarce commodity shaped their lives. Sean K. Miller is a product of the region's first oil drillers, and he combines his professional storytelling abilities with his family history in the oil industry to produce a narrative that is both entertaining and educational.
- Contents:
- Kier's Medicinal Petroleum and the Birth of an Industry 15
- Drake's Well 23
- The Rush Is On 31
- The Life of a Driller 37
- Boomtowns 43
- The Frazer Well and Pithole 49
- The Transportation of Petroleum 55
- The Pond Freshet Disaster 61
- Pipeliners and the Pipeline War 65
- Nitroglycerine and the Roberts Torpedo Company 69
- The Moonlighters' War and the Fate of Nitro Shooters 73
- The Great Benninghoff Robbery 77
- A Self-drilling Well 83
- Standard Oil and the South Improvement Company 87
- The Oil Riots of 1872 93
- The True Story of Rial & Company's No. 9 Well 97
- The Great Flood and Fire 101
- Spindletop 107
- Oil History Timeline 111
- Glossary of Petroleum Industry Language 119.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-127).
- ISBN:
- 9781596294639
- 1596294639
- OCLC:
- 216614667
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