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American Experience: Season 2

2x05 Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil
TV-PG

  • 1989-11-01T02:00:00Z on PBS
  • 55m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
The tale of mavericks whose risk-taking, sweat and dreams changed an American industry. Starting with Spindletop, the first Texas gusher in 1902, rare archival film and interviews with pioneering oilmen are set against a contemporary story of a modern "wildcatter," gambling to find his fortune in yet another narrow hole in the Texas earth.
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