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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Business, Ecology, Crime, Indians, & the Black Gold Rush,
By etymologik (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Oklahoma Petroleum Industry (Oklahoma horizons series) (Hardcover)
Superbly factual material on Oklahoma oil from 1880s to 1940s. Lots of early period data and lots of context for that data presented in a "just the facts" style -- locations, names, dates, technologies, economics & business drivers, disasters, prices, Indian compensation rates for oil leases, ecological mayhem, and boomtown sociology (complete with Prohibition, gangsters, tent revivals, gun-toting Methodist ministers, and the kidnapping of a rich oilman for ransom by Machine Gun Kelly). The Oklahoma oil boom & bust couldn't have a better documentarian than Franks. Many worthwhile photographs, too, but most are of poor quality and some primitive hand retouching reduces their value.
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The Oklahoma Petroleum Industry (Oklahoma horizons series) by Kenny Arthur Franks (Hardcover - Nov. 1980)
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