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El Dorado: Legacy Of An Oil Boom (KS) (Images of America) by Price, Jay M., 1969- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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In 1915, workers struck oil at a well in Butler County, Kansas, called Stapleton #1. Over the next several years, civilian and military demand for oil transformed what had once been the farm towns of Augusta, Towanda, and El Dorado (pronounced El Dor-AY-do in local parlance) into petroleum communities. Risk-taking entrepreneurs supported drilling and exploration that brought wealth to some and loss to others. Teams of geologists, using what were still novel and experimental techniques, fanned ou
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- Author
- Price, Jay M., 1969-
- Publisher
- Arcadia Publishing
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780738539713
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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