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Oil Find Changed History in Texas the Oil Springs Boom
An eight part Enstitute of Texan Cultures booklet recounts the first Texas oil well near Oil Springs in 1866 by Lyne Barret and the 1860s Reconstruction era figures Edmund J. Davis and Richard Coke. The piece links Barret’s 108 foot strike to Texas becoming oil capital and profiles Davis as a controversial Republican leader and Coke as reformist governor.
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The
Enstitute of Texan Cultures
San Antonio
East Texas
Virginia
Texas
Lyne Barret
Oil Springs
Nacogdoches County
Col
Edwin Drake
Pennnsylvania
Barret
Edmund J. Davis
Florida
Rio Grande Valley
Unio
Davis
Brownsville
Richard Coke
Grant
Austin
State Supreme Cour