Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom (Creating the North American Landscape)

In Petrolia, Brian Black offers a geographical and social history of a region that was not only the site of America's first oil boom but was also the world's largest oil producer between 1859 and 1873. Against the background of the growing demand for petroleum throughout and immediately following the Civil War, Black describes Oil Creek Valley's descent into environmental hell. Known as "Petrolia," the region charged the popular imagination with ...

By Brian Black
Series: Creating the North American Landscape
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; First Edition, First Printing edition (June 16, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780801863172
ISBN-13: 978-0801863172
ASIN: 0801863171
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 3674432
Format: PDF Text TXT book

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A very interesting history revelation about... America's early industrial revolution... the realization that land use/leases could make any average citizen, of the day, a huge fortune from a newly discovered commodity that basically oozed out of the

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