Spindletop

Spindletop
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Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0884158136
ISBN-13 : 9780884158134
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Book Synopsis Spindletop by : James Anthony Clark

Download or read book Spindletop written by James Anthony Clark and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January 10, 1901 -a momentous day in history. At 10:30 in the morning the first great American gusher "roared in like a shot from a heavy cannon and spouted oil a hundred feet over the top of the derrick out on the hummock that the world would soon know as Spindletop." Overnight the town of Beaumont, Texas became a bedlam. The population doubled and doubled again ... This is the true story of the oil discovery that changed the world -of the events leading up to it and the boom days that followed.


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