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Hope Morritt
Softcover
254 pages
Out of Print.
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Rivers of Oil: The Founding of North America’s Petroleum Industry
$83.00
An interesting look at the early days of north american petroleum drilling.
Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and line drawings.
Topics covered include:
The Hard Oilers of Enniskillen: A Brief History of Oil;
Gum Beds;
Charles Nelson Tripp;
Paris International Exhibition;
The First Oil Well;
James Miller Williams Jigging Down;
Hugh Nixon Shaw;
John Henry Fairbank;
Wild Wells;
Race Riot;
Canadian Oil Association;
Royal Honours;
Old Fairbank;
Drilling and Refining Technology;
Jake Englehart and William H. McGarvey;
The Return of Charles Nelson Tripp;
Boom and Bust. The Oil Barons of Petrolia: The Petrolia Discovery;
Vantuyl and Fairbank and Vaughn;
Harry Prince;
The Petrolia Assemblies;
Corporate Ventures;
Petrolia Family Politics;
Foreign Drillers and Imperial Dreams;
Founding Imperial Oil Company;
The Oil Exchange;
William McGarvey in Galicia;
Imperial Success;
Baronial Buildings;
Death of the Fathers;
Standard Oil Raids;
Royal Petrolian;
Standard Takeover;
Ghost Town;
Englehart’s Railway;
and The End of an Era
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| Weight | 0.5 kg |
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| Dimensions | 21 × 25 × 1.3 cm |
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