Sketches in Crude Oil by John J. McLaurin

This work is aimed at give the busy outside world, by anecdote and incident and brief narration, a glimpse of the grandest industry of the ages and of the men chiefly responsible for the origin and growth of the great Petroleum Industry. Many of the portraits and illustrations presented in this volume will be valuable mementoes of individuals and localities that have passed from mortal sight forever. If the reader shall find that “within is more of relish than of cost” the writer of these “Sketches” will be amply satisfied.