Ponca City and Kay County Boom Towns - Couverture souple

Reeves-Franks, Clyda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0738519707 ISBN 13 : 9780738519708

Editeur : Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2002

Synopsis

Man's enduring search for quick riches and hidden wealth led directly to the rush for black gold in the Indian Territory at the turn of the twentieth century. By 1907, when the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory joined to become the state of Oklahoma, the era of the big-money oil industry had been launched. During the first four decades of the twentieth century, Oklahoma produced four-billion barrels of crude valued at over $5 billion-more value than all minerals extracted from California or Colorado.

This massive rush also created a new generation of boom towns, attracting a myriad of honest merchants, gamblers, workers, thieves, millionaires and prostitutes who competed side-by-side for their share of the riches. From this turmoil came both thriving communities and ghost towns. Ponca City and Kay County Boom Towns captures that exciting era in vintage photographs and anecdotes of the brothels and burning oil fields, the lawmen and outlaws, and the businesses and workers who made up these boom towns.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Clyde R. Franks is an award-winning and prolific author of Oklahoma history who has a keen sense for the nostalgia of her state's oil legacy. She is the author of Arcadia Publishing's Tulsa: Where the Streets Were Paved With Gold.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0738519707
• ISBN 13: 9780738519708
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible