Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, 2010
ISBN 10: 0738584592 ISBN 13: 9780738584591
Anbieter: Old Bookie, Austin, TX, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: F. No Jacket. 127 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.; pictorial wraps. This volume covers a period of about 75 years from the town's beginnings to 1950. Ranger began in the 1870s near a Texas Ranger camp in northeastern Eastland County. It remained a farming community of about 700 people until October 17, 1917, when an oil well on the McCleskey farm, south of town, ushered in one of the best-known oil discoveries. Within months, Ranger's population had surged to approximately 30,000, including investors, speculators, wildcatters, oil field workers, curious onlookers, and the usual criminal element attracted to oil boomtowns. Crime became so rampant that the Texas Rangers eventually were called in to intercede. Oil production peaked in 1919 before collapsing when over-drilling "blew the top off" the field. The modern oilfield consists largely of "work-over" pumps pumping at low volume.
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In den WarenkorbZustand: New. Über den AutorAuthor Alfred Rogers, a retired librarian from the University of Texas Libraries system, grew up in Ranger and has had a long-standing interest in its history. Using vintage photographs from the Ranger Historical Prese.