Petrolia : the landscape of America's first oil boom / Brian Black.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Brian, 1966-

Series:

Creating the North American landscape.

Creating the North American landscape

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum--Pennsylvania--Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County)--History.

Petroleum.

Petroleum industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County)--History.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.)--Environmental conditions--History.

Oil Creek Valley (Crawford County and Venango County, Pa.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Landscape of America's first oil boom

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction The Persistence of Oil on the Brain

Chapter One "A Good Time Coming for Whales"

Chapter Two "A Triumph of Individualism"

Chapter Three The Sacrificial Landscape of Petrolia

Chapter Four Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus

Chapter Five What Nature Intended This Place Should Be"

Chapter Six Pithole: Boomtowns and the "Drawing Board City"

Chapter Seven Delusions of Permanence

Epilogue The Legacy of Petrolia

Appendix Oil Boom Towns with Post Offices of Petrolia, Listing Years of Operation

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-225) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780801874659

0801874653

OCLC:

51494054

Publisher Number:

2027/heb30884 hdl