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Download or read book El Dorado written by Jay M. Price and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 out across the prairie to find the right places to drill. Workers found employment that was hard and dangerous but offered excitement and opportunity. Families of those workers set up new lives in company towns such as Oil Hill and Midian. Drilling, refining, and related industries supported a wide range of activities. Oil money financed the budding aviation industry in neighboring Wichita, which literally launched the resources from under the ground into the sky. While the petroleum industry changed in the years that followed, the Butler County oil boom has lived on in the companies, the people, and the very landscape of the region.
Book Synopsis El Dorado and the Oil Boom by : Jack G. Walls
Download or read book El Dorado and the Oil Boom written by Jack G. Walls and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Oil Boom 1921 by : Matthew J. Shepherd
Download or read book Oil Boom 1921 written by Matthew J. Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Rags to Riches by : Alison L. Hill
Download or read book From Rags to Riches written by Alison L. Hill and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The "El Dorado" Oil Company by : El Dorado Oil Company
Download or read book The "El Dorado" Oil Company written by El Dorado Oil Company and published by . This book was released on 1867* with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oil Boom written by Boyce House and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arkansas Banker written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kingdom written by Jerome Tuccille and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with the life of H.L. Hunt, the oil tycoon, and his family.
Book Synopsis The Queen of Hamburger Row - A Reluctant Prostitute by : R. Harper Mason
Download or read book The Queen of Hamburger Row - A Reluctant Prostitute written by R. Harper Mason and published by BWM Books. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Explorer's Guide Arkansas (2nd Edition) (Explorer's Complete) by : Jana Wood
Download or read book Explorer's Guide Arkansas (2nd Edition) (Explorer's Complete) written by Jana Wood and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete update to the one and only true guide to Arkansas In this, the second edition to the only comprehensive travel guide to Arkansas, Jana Wood covers all the attractions well- known and little- known in “the Natural State.” A land rich in history and nature, Arkansas is home to the only public diamond mine in the world, the first federally protected river, and the first national park. From the Ozarks to the Mississippi Delta, this book offers complete coverage of towns large and small, along with a wealth of information on local history and the state’s 52 state parks. As with all Explorer’s Guides, readers will also find helpful maps, food and lodging recommendations, contact information, hours, pricing, and beautiful color photography throughout. Regions include: • The Mississippi Alluvial Plain • The Arkansas River Valley • The Ozark Mountains
Download or read book National Petroleum News written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mourning El Dorado by : Charlotte Rogers
Download or read book Mourning El Dorado written by Charlotte Rogers and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues that El Dorado has not been forgotten and still inspires the reckless pursuit of illusory wealth. The search for gold in South America during the colonial period inaugurated the "promise of El Dorado"—the belief that wealth and happiness can be found in the tropical forests of the Americas. That assumption has endured over the course of centuries, still evident in the various modes of natural resource extraction, such as oil drilling and mining, that characterize the region today. Mourning El Dorado looks at how fiction from the American tropics written since 1950 engages with the promise of El Dorado in the age of the Anthropocene. Just as the golden kingdom was never found, natural resource extraction has not produced wealth and happiness for the peoples of the tropics. While extractivism enriches a few outsiders, it results in environmental degradation and the subjugation, displacement, and forced assimilation of native peoples. This book considers how the fiction of five writers—Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, Mario Vargas Llosa, Álvaro Mutis, and Milton Hatoum—criticizes extractive practices and mourns the lost illusion of the forest as a place of wealth and happiness.
Download or read book The Arkansas Journey written by and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oil Wars Myth by : Emily L. Meierding
Download or read book The Oil Wars Myth written by Emily L. Meierding and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do countries fight wars for oil? Given the resource's exceptional military and economic importance, most people assume that states will do anything to obtain it. Challenging this conventional wisdom, The Oil Wars Myth reveals that countries do not launch major conflicts to acquire petroleum resources. Emily Meierding argues that the costs of foreign invasion, territorial occupation, international retaliation, and damage to oil company relations deter even the most powerful countries from initiating "classic oil wars." Examining a century of interstate violence, she demonstrates that, at most, countries have engaged in mild sparring to advance their petroleum ambitions. The Oil Wars Myth elaborates on these findings by reassessing the presumed oil motives for many of the twentieth century's most prominent international conflicts: World War II, the two American Gulf wars, the Iran–Iraq War, the Falklands/Malvinas War, and the Chaco War. These case studies show that countries have consistently refrained from fighting for oil. Meierding also explains why oil war assumptions are so common, despite the lack of supporting evidence. Since classic oil wars exist at the intersection of need and greed—two popular explanations for resource grabs—they are unusually easy to believe in. The Oil Wars Myth will engage and inform anyone interested in oil, war, and the narratives that connect them.
Book Synopsis The Paradox of Plenty by : Terry Lynn Karl
Download or read book The Paradox of Plenty written by Terry Lynn Karl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-10-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paradox of Plenty explains why, in the midst of two massive oil booms in the 1970s, oil-exporting governments as different as Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Algeria, and Indonesia chose common development paths and suffered similarly disappointing outcomes. Meticulously documented and theoretically innovative, this book illuminates the manifold factors—economic, political, and social—that determine the nature of the oil state, from the coherence of public bureaucracies, to the degree of centralization, to patterns of policy-making. Karl contends that oil countries, while seemingly disparate, are characterized by similar social classes and patterns of collective action. In these countries, dependence on petroleum leads to disproportionate fiscal reliance on petrodollars and public spending, at the expense of statecraft. Oil booms, which create the illusion of prosperity and development, actually destabilize regimes by reinforcing oil-based interests and further weakening state capacity. Karl's incisive investigation unites structural and choice-based approaches by illuminating how decisions of policymakers are embedded in institutions interacting with domestic and international markets. This approach—which Karl dubs "structured contingency"—uses a state's leading sector as the starting point for identifying a range of decision-making choices, and ends by examining the dynamics of the state itself.
Book Synopsis The WPA Guide to Arkansas by : Federal Writers' Project
Download or read book The WPA Guide to Arkansas written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. Published in 1941, the WPA Guide to Arkansas splendidly exhibits the varied environment of the Natural State. From the densely forested land in the Ozark Mountains and Arkansas Timberlands to the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta, the guide to the Land of Opportunity provides several photographs of, history on, and driving tours through the state’s grand geography.
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Download or read book I-69 Section of Independent Utility 13, El Dorado to McGehee written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
