Today in Texas History: Oil hit Spindletop – The Texan
Today in Texas History: Oil hit Spindletop – The Texan
Austin, Texas, 2 minutes ago – With a plume of black gold blowing skyward in front of him, Pattillo Higgins sealed his place in Texas lore in an instant so brief that the flight of oil spewing above him for it to rain. It was 1901, and an oil source had first been struck in […]
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