ILLUSTRATIONS.
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| Oil-Wells in India | [6] |
| View in Oil City, Pa., after the flood, March 17, 1867 | [26] |
| Baku, Russia and Bakany Views | [14] |
| Notable Wells on Oil Creek in 1861-2-3 | [42] |
| Map of Venango County | [59] |
| Early Operators on Oil Creek | [60] |
| Group Picture—Maj. W. T. Baum, Jacob Sheasley, Henry F. James, James Evans, W. R. Crawford, Daniel Grimm, Col. Jas. P. Hoover | [82] |
| Miller & Sibley’s Prospect Hill Stock Farm, Franklin, Pa. | [115] |
| Group Picture—John Vanausdall, G. K. Anderson, Wm. Phillips, F. S. Tarbell, F. W. Andrews, Capt. Wm. Hasson, Henry R. Rouse, John P. Zane. D. W. Kenney’s Allemagoozelum City Well No. 2 | [116] |
| Petroleum Centre, 1894 | [131] |
| Wells on Benninghoff Run, Venango Co., Pa., in 1866 | [156] |
| General View of Pithole in August, 1895 | [172] |
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| Parker Oil Exchange in 1874 | [190] |
| Up the Allegheny River | [212] |
| Views at St. Petersburg, Edenburg and Other Places | [232] |
| Karns City, Greece City, Petrolia, 1873; Group of Hascal L. Taylor, Marcus Brownson and John Satterfield | [258] |
| Group Picture—Richard Jennings, S. D. Karns, George Nesbit and George Dimick | [261] |
| Armstrong Well | [281] |
| Views on the Tarr Farm, Oil Creek, in 1863-6. Refinery and Oil-Wells at Russia and Baku | [292] |
| Pond Freshet at Oil City, March, ’63 | [310] |
| A Cluster of Pioneer Editors | [344] |
| Group Picture—F. F. Murray, Frank W. Truesdell, R. W. Criswell, James M. Place and George E. Mapes | [366] |
| Group Picture—Col. J. K. Haffey, D. A. Dennison, Thomas A. Kern and Charles F. Persons | [371] |
| Well Flowing Oil After Torpedoing | [382] |
| Standard Building, 26 Broadway, N.Y. | [408] |
I.
THE STAR IN THE EAST.
Petroleum in Ancient Times—Known from an Early Period in the World’s History—Mentioned in the Scriptures and by Primitive Writers—Solomon Sustained—Stumbling Upon the Greasy Staple in Various Lands—Incidents and Anecdotes of Different Sorts and Sizes—Over Asia, Africa and Europe for the Stuff.
“The morning star in all its splendor was rising in the East.”—Felix Dahn.
“Alone in the increasing darkness * * * it is a beacon light.”—Disraeli.
“It were all one that I should love a bright particular star.”—Shakespeare.