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Category: Oil Industry

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Drilling for Black Gold With the Union Oil Company of California Bulletin, August 1922

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  • Posted on August 17, 2026August 18, 2026
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No Place Like Home With a Photo of La Casa Nueva’s Courtyard Under Construction, 16 August 1924

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  • Posted on August 16, 2026
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Drilling for Black Gold: “The Brea-Olinda Field: A Phenomenal Producer Reserve” in Union Oil Bulletin, May 1925

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  • Posted on July 31, 2026August 1, 2026
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Star, 4 June 1874

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  • Posted on June 4, 2026June 5, 2026
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Getting Schooled While Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Thomas W. Temple II to Walter P. Temple, Sr., 2 June 1927

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  • Posted on June 2, 2026June 3, 2026
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Youle Tide, Too: “Sixty-Three Years of Life in the Oil Fields” by William E. Youle in the Souvenir Number of the “Petroleum Reporter,” 21 May 1926, Part Three

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  • Posted on May 23, 2026
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Youle Tide, Too: “Sixty-Three Years of Life in the Oil Fields” by William E. Youle in the Souvenir Number of the “Petroleum Reporter,” 21 May 1926, Part Two

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  • Posted on May 22, 2026May 23, 2026
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Youle Tide, Too: “Sixty-Three Years of Life in the Oil Fields” by William E. Youle in the Souvenir Number of the “Petroleum Reporter,” 21 May 1926, Part One

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  • Posted on May 21, 2026May 22, 2026
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Tres Hermanos Hike Postview: Some History of Tonner Canyon Namesake Patrick C. Tonner (1844-1900), Part Seven

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  • Posted on May 5, 2026
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“Served Well in Army, Field and at Bar”: Some History of Alfred Beck Chapman (1829-1915), Part One

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  • Posted on April 11, 2026April 12, 2026
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