Pennsylvania's Oil Heritage: Stories from the Headache Post
| Year of Publication |
2008
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| Publication Type |
Short Stories
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
127 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Sean K. Miller |
| Publisher |
The History Press
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| City |
Charleston, SC
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| Abstract |
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. |
| Author Biography |
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.
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| Time |
1848-1901
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