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Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom by Brian C. Black

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4.0

I read this for my American History of Environmentalism class with the actual author, Dr. Brian Black. It's a really fantastic book (seriously). Even as a native Pennsylvanian this is a history that I never knew about my own home state. It's well worth a read and certainly the history of the oil industry in Pennsylvania is very relevant today as we deal with the modern equivalent - the fracking industry.
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