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Abraham, Kurt S. "World's oldest producing oil well hits 140".
World Oil, 222(9) Sept 2001. p33.
Anonymous. "Striking oil: 1859". life, 20(10A) Fall
1997. p80
Brice, William R. "Petroleum exploration; pre-Drake well".
AAPG Bulletin 82(9) Sep 1998.
Drake was not the first Brice, William R. AAPG Bulletin Vol.
84, no. 9. Tulsa, OK : American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Sep.
2000.
Cohen, Paul; Cohen, Brenda. "The Drake Well Museum in Western
Pennsylvania". Journal of College Science Teaching, 24(4) Feb
1995. p282-283
Flaherty, Kathy J. "As the drill-bit churns".
Pennsylvania Geology 29(1) 1998.
Flaherty, Kathy J. "The science of drilling oil wells".
Pennsylvania Geology 29(1) 1998.
Harper, John A. "Why the Drake Well?" Pennsylvania
Geology 29(1) 1998.
Harper, John A. "Drake Well Memorial Park; a little geology, a
little history". Guidebook for the Annual Field Conference of
Pennsylvania Geologists Vol. 63. [Harrisburg, PA] : [Field Conference
of Pennsylvania Geologists], 1998.
Laughrey, Christopher D. "The origin of oil". Pennsylvania
Geology 29(1) 1998.
Moore, WDIII. "Ingenuity Sparks Drilling History". Oil and
Gas Journal 75(35) August 1977, p 159-177.
Pees, Samuel T. "The opening years and subsequent events of
the early oil industry in Oil Creek valley, NW Pennsylvania, U.S.A."
Annual Conference - Ontario Petroleum Institute Vol. 30.
Blenheim, ON : Ontario Petroleum Institute, 1991.
Pees, Samuel T. "Oil Creek's riparian wells". Pennsylvania
Geology 29(1) 1998.
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American Petroleum Institute. The burning rivers : the story of
oil in America before the drilling of the Drake well in 1859. New
York : Dept. of Information of the American Petroleum Institute, 1945.
Black, Brian. Petrolia : the landscape of America's first oil
boom. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000.
CALL # TN872.P4
B56 2000
Clark, Joseph Stanley. The oil century, from the Drake well to
the conservation era. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press
[1958].
CALL # HD9565
.C59x.
Darrah, William Culp. Pithole, the vanished city; a story of
the early days of the petroleum industry. [Gettysburg? Pa.,
1972].
CALL # F159.P5
D3.
Giddens, Paul Henry,ed. Pennsylvania petroleum, 1750-1872; a
documentary history. Titusville, Pa., Drake Well Memorial Park,
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1947.
CALL # TN872.P4
G522x.
Lytle, William S.; Lytle, William S. Guidebook, Drake Well
centennial, 1859-1959. [Pittsburgh? : 1959].
Mather, John A.; Bell, Edwin C. Mather's historic oil regions
of western Pennsylvania. 1994.
Miller, Ernest C. An investigation of North America's first oil
well;
who drilled it? Rutland, Vt., C.E. Tuttle Co. 1964.
Oil Well Supply Co. 75 years of progress : 1859-1934. Oil
City, Pa. : Oil Well Supply Co., 1934.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Drake Well Park :
replica of world's first oil well at original. Harrisburg, Pa. :
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1967.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Drake Well Memorial
Park, Titusville, Pennsylvania : birthplace of the petroleum industry,
August 27, 1859. [Harrisburg] : The Commission, 1946.
Rarick, R. Dee. The petroleum industry--its birth in
Pennsylvania and development in Indiana. Bloomington, Ind. :
State of Indiana, Dept. of Natural Resources, Geological Survey, 1980.
CALL # TN872.P4
R37 1980.
Sherman, Jon. Drake Well Museum and Park : Pennsylvania trail
of history guide. Mechanicsburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books, 2002.
Stewart, Anne W.; Ries, linda A.; Morrow, Dixie., and others. John
A. Mather ; the legacy of Pennsylvania's oil region photographer.
Titusville, [Pa.] : Colonel, 1995.
Wood, Quentin E. Quaker State roots go deep into the world's
first oilfield. New York : Newcomen Society of the U.S.,
1986.
CALL # HD9569.Q82
W66 1987.
