Description:
El Dorado, KS: Butler County Historical Society, 1981. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 228pp.incl.index; HB yellow w/brwn.; slight rub on corners,otherwise fine conditon. History of the County. illus.
Oil Hill; The Town That Cities Service Built by Lawrence P. Klintworth (AUTHOR SIGNED) - 1977
by Lawrence P. Klintworth (AUTHOR SIGNED)
Oil Hill; The Town That Cities Service Built
by Lawrence P. Klintworth (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
El Dorado, KS: The Butler County Historical Society, 1977 The Butler County Historical Society, El Dorado, KS. 1977. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; trace wear to head, tail, and tips. No DJ. Green cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board with oil field in gilt on front cover. 116 pp 4to. This is the story of a town that once flourished but soon died on the fortuned of the oil field. Oil Hill was a company town started in 1915 with an oil boom and soon reached a population of 2500 or more that sat atop the El Dorado Oilfield. Cities Service and its drilling company Empire Oil and Gas built the town and developed the oil field through the true boom of the teens and 20s. Oil Hill declined over the years and in 1958 the last residents were moved out of their company homes and the town ceased to exist. This book deals mostly with the boom days and what the town was like in its heyday. A clean very presentable copy.
- Bookseller Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher The Butler County Historical Society
- Place of Publication El Dorado, KS
- Date Published 1977
- Keywords Oil Hill Kansas, Butler County Kansas, El Dorado kansas, El Dorado Oil Field, World War I, oil refinery, oil drilling, Cities Service Oil Company, Empire Gas and Fuel Company, Midian Kansas, Frazier, Elcoln Kansas, Benton Kansas, Towanda Kansas,
- Size 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall