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Author
Publisher
Jas. B. Rodgers
Pub. Date
1873
Physical Desc
607 p.
Language
English
Description
With authentic facts in regard to its development in Western Pennsylvania. The oil fields of Europe and America, gas wells, spiritual wells, oil well shafts, petroleum products, oil companies, pipe line statistics, early modes of transportation, flowing wells of 1861 to 1864, Pit Hole in 1865, the lubricating oil district, &c. Also, statistics of product, export, and consumption, with prices of oil from 1859 to 1872, &c. The Parkers' and Butler County...
17) Oil, oil, oil!
Publisher
Venango County Historical Society
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Explores some of the highlights from the history of oil, including the early years, the increased activity during the 1890s and early part of this century, and the return to this historic region in the 1970s, plus some of the highs and lows in-between.
18) Earth oil
Author
Publisher
The Century Co
Pub. Date
1933
Physical Desc
xi, 158 p. illus., diagrs. 19 cm.
Language
English