Eighteen short stories—historical yarns or folklore—about the 19th-century “black gold rush” in the Allegheny River Valley. The tales start in 1848 with Samuel Kier in Tarentum, Allegheny County packaging patent medicine—Seneca Oil—and finish in 1901 when the Lucas Gusher on Spindletop is tapped near Beaumont, Texas, diminishing the rich Western Pennsylvania oil counties.
C1 - 1848-1901 C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Pittsburgh; Tarentum; Butler County; Butler; Crawford County; Meadville; Titusville; Venango County; French Creek (tributary); Oil Creek (tributary); Franklin; Oil City; Rouseville; Cornplanter Twp.; Pithole; Warren Coun C4 - Historical; Labor CY - Charleston, SC LA - English M3 - Short Stories N2 -Eighteen short stories—historical yarns or folklore—about the 19th-century “black gold rush” in the Allegheny River Valley. The tales start in 1848 with Samuel Kier in Tarentum, Allegheny County packaging patent medicine—Seneca Oil—and finish in 1901 when the Lucas Gusher on Spindletop is tapped near Beaumont, Texas, diminishing the rich Western Pennsylvania oil counties.
PB - The History Press PP - Charleston, SC PY - 2008 RN - Sean Miller (1967— ) grew up in Dempseytown, Venango County. After a stint in the U.S. Navy, he worked in Oil City, Venango County at the Venango Museum of Art, Science & Industry where he began storytelling. EP - 127 p. TI - Pennsylvania's Oil Heritage: Stories from the Headache Post ER -