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Spindletop: How it changed the world
County singer Tracy Byrd will perform his "Spindletop Song." When that first Spindletop well, the Lucas Gusher, whooshed in, it had a stunning and immediate effect on Beaumont. From a city of ...
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A January to remember | The day Texas struck oil
As the news spread, speculators, dreamers and oil wells popped up around Beaumont. The so-called “Lucas Gusher” at Spindletop Field would change history. It marked the birth of the modern oil ...
How did Houston become ‘energy capital of the world’? The answer starts 124 years ago in Spindletop
On Jan. 10, 1901, it finally paid off. The Lucas Gusher (named after oilman Anthony F. Lucas, one of Higgins’ many associates ...
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TEXAS MAY CLAIM OIL WELL.; Lucas Gusher, at Beaumont, May Be Found to be on Land Formerly Belonging to the School Fund.
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 29 -- The oil from the great Lucas gusher near Beaumont may become the property of the State of Texas. State Land Commissioner Charles Rogan to-day discovered that the Public ...
Houston Chronicle9y
De Soto to Spindletop: How oil birthed modern Houston
In between, the one-armed speculator helped launch the Texas energy boom 115 years ago with his steadfast belief that an epic gusher lay beneath Spindletop Hill near Beaumont. Survivors of the De ...
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OIL: Hero of Spindletop
Ironically, much of this bypassed Pattillo Higgins. Even before the first Spindletop gusher blew in, he had been elbowed aside by Anthony Lucas. It was called the “Lucas well,” not the Higgins ...
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Flashback: Spindletop spewed oil, transformed Texas in 1901
In this 1901 photo provided by the Texas Energy Museum, the Lucas gusher at Spindletop blows oil an estimated 200 feet in the air in the days after the initial blowout on Jan. 10, 1901 ...
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Wildcatters: We were optimistic for oil
Anse la Butte had a pedigree, if not production, in its early years. Capt. A.F. Lucas of Spindletop gusher fame in Beaumont, Texas, drilled first at Anse la Butte, located near swampland between ...
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Novel Chronicles The History Of The Oil Industry Through A Fictional Character’s Booms And Busts
Oil derricks at Spindletop, near Beaumont, in 1941. The modern petroleum industry was born on January 10, 1901 when the Lucas Gusher, Spindletop No. 1, started exploration on a grand scale.
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Power City: Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum finishes construction, celebrates new exhibit
The museum is a re-creation of what Beaumont was like in 1901 after the Lucas Gusher and discovery of oil at Spindletop. “[Beaumont] went from 9,000 to 50,00 people almost overnight," Spindletop ...
The New York Times7y
TEXAS MAY CLAIM OIL WELL.(2); Lucas Gusher, at Beaumont, May Be Found to be on Land Formerly Belonging to the School Fund.
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 29 -- The oil from the great Lucas gusher near Beaumont may become the property of the State of Texas. State Land Commissioner Charles Rogan to-day discovered that the Public ...