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When It Hit Him In the Face

August 14, 2018 by PBOG

When he died at age 100—40 years ago this year—he was the last of the Spindletop oil pioneers. Curtis G. Hamill was a driller on the 1901 discovery well that launched the Texas oil industry. As his obituary stated, Hamill was standing on a derrick platform 40 feet off the ground Jan. 10, 1901, when […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Workovers Tagged With: Curtis G. Hamill, Driller, gusher, oil boom, Oil Pioneers, Spindletop

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