Cambridge Springs Public Library

Local author.

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...

"Being a series of chapters in which are related the writer's many personal experiences, during fifty years of life in the oil regions." A collection of thirty-nine chapters of recollections and twenty-seven biographical sketches.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

"A concise and reliable history of the oil industry of the state. Contains facts and figures carefully compiled and information that can be obtained in no other form."

"Man's most creative century - a 100th birthday story."

Reprint from: historical vignette of same title, U.S. Department of the Interior.