Spindletop
A New History of Old Texas - Un pódcast de Brandon Seale
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Episode 7 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Engines of Texas History.Anthony Lucas's gusher at Spindletop marked "a new era of civilization," yet was the product of the humility, persistence, and practical genius of three Waco-area farm boys. Oil rapidly transformed the Texas economy from stubbornly agrarian and colonial into a first-world industrial power. For the first time in Texas history, Texans began to accumulate capital and were set on a countercyclical trajectory from the rest of the...
