Texas Black Gold – From Spindletop to Friday Night Lights
Scheisse, you think beer foam is dramatic? You should have seen Texas when that first geyser of oil shot outta Spindletop back in 1901. Looked like a Bavarian beer keg exploded into the sky, only darker, gooier, and made everybody sehr reich instead of just tipsy. From Spindletop to Boomtown Down near Beaumont, that Spindletop gusher started it all. Before then, Texas was mostly cattle, cotton, and cowboys who smelled like cow patties instead of diesel. But when oil started…