No one knew that oil could come from the ground until a bankrupt group of speculators hit pay dirt in northwestern Pennsylvania
The problem is as old as the industry itself
IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, CARS CAN STILL FILL UP AT A FOUNT THAT NURTURED THE AUTOMOTIVE AGE IN ITS INFANCY
The “loser decade” that at first seemed nothing more than a breathing space between the high drama of the 1960s and whatever was coming next is beginning to reveal itself as a bigger time than we thought
How Americans Met the First Great Gasoline Crisis—Nearly Forty Years Ago
Our Frontier Heritage of Waste
HOW AND WHY THE UNITED STATES GOT INVOLVED IN THE MIDDLE EAST
America’s greed for oil has drastically upset the ecological balance of Alaska’s North Slope, and the end is not in sight
How gullible Edwin L. Drake, an ailing ex-railroad conductor, brought about America’s first and gaudiest oil boom
The story of the first great Texas oil well, which ushered in a new century and a new age, as remembered by participants