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Giant under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901. By Judith Walker Linsley, Ellen Walker Rienstra, and Jo Ann Stiles. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2002. xii + 304 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
      "On January 10, 1901, around 10:30 a.m. on a clearing wintry day near the small Southeast Texas town of Beaumont, the course of history veered sharply in a new direction.... The Spindletop oil field was born" (p. 1). The discovery of this rich oil field changed the lives of the people who drilled the wells and who lived in and around Beaumont. These gushers pumped out so much oil that Texas suddenly became the largest producer "per day than all the rest of the fields in the world put together" (p. 3). . . .
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