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The Great Wildcatter [Michael Late Benedum]

By: Mallison, Sam T.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Charleston, West Virginia, Education Foundation of West Virginia, Inc.: 1953

Seller ID: 11154

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and a gilt-stamped oil derrick decoration on the front cover. 528 pages with black and white photos and a frontispiece color reproduction of a portrait in oil of the subject of the book--Michael Late Benedum. The West Virginia oil wildcatter based his company in Pittsburgh and drilled around th globe. Their first well started producing in 1896 in West Virginia and later they were responsible for the discovery of oil in Florida and the Yates Oil Field in Texas' Permian Basin.
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A Sixth Sense: The Life and Science of Henri-Georges Doll, Oilfield Pioneer and Inventor

By: Oristaglio, Michael & Alexander Dorozynski

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Overlook Duckworth: 2009

Seller ID: 08229

ISBN: 1590202392

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

336 pages with a Note on Sources, References, and Index. Illustrated with photos and endpaper maps.
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Category: Biographies

The Great Wildcatter [Michael Late Benedum]

A Sixth Sense: The Life and Science of Henri-Georges Doll, Oilfield Pioneer and Inventor