The first oil rush
By: by Frances G. Conn and Shirley Sirota Rosenberg.
Contributors: Rosenberg, Shirley Sirota, joint author.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Meredith Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Petroleum -- Pennsylvania -- Titusville -- Juvenile literature.; Petroleum industry and trade -- History.; Petroleum -- Pennsylvania -- Titusville.
First sentence: The foam-rubber mattress on which you sleep.....The [;astic tumbler from which you drink....The  Orlon sweater
which you wear......They can all be made from oil !
Description: An account of the events which led to Col. Edwin L. Drake's discovery of oil in Pennsylvania and the results of the economic boom that followed.
Notes: Frances G. Conn was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania.