1. Early Oil Exploration in Indian Territory
2. No. 1 Nellie Johnstone
3. Red Fork
4. Rush Begins
5. Statehood and Regulation
6. Osage Nation, 1896-1920
7. Cushing
8. Healdton
9. Oil Boomtowns
10. Roaring Twenties
11. Greater Seminole Field
12. Oklahoma City
13. Regulation and Conservation, 1910-31
14. International Petroleum Exposition and Congress
15. Martial Law and Proration
16. Conservation and Cooperation
17. War Years
18. Science and Technology
19. Oklahoma Petroleum-Related Industries
20. Oklahoma's Petroleum Legacy
21. Outstanding Oklahoma Oilmen
22. Future

Oil and Oklahoma are synoymous. Oil transformed the state's economy and laid the foundations for financial and industrial institutions that were essential to Oklahoma's future. This complete history describes the progress of the industry and the changes that oil made.

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