Such was the narrow ravine, nowhere sixty rods in width, that figured so grandly as the Valley of Petroleum.
FARMS ON OIL CREEK, VENANGO COUNTY, PA., IN 1860-65.
A SPLASH ON OIL CREEK.
The dark mud of Oil Creek! Unbeautiful mud,
That couldn’t and wouldn’t be nipped in the bud!
Quite irreclaimable,
Wholly untamable;
There it was, not a doubt of it,
People couldn’t keep out of it;