Photo courtesy of American Oil and Gas Historical Society Oil derricks operating on the Oklahoma State Capitol grounds.
Risk-taking wildcatters made state a national, global ‘player’
Mike W. Ray Staff Writer
The “Old West” was a period of cattle drives, cowboys and gunslingers, Billy the Kid and Jesse James, Wyatt Earp and Geronimo, the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Gunfight at the OK Corral.
Monday, November 11, 2019