Nearly Forgotten The Amazing Story of the Glenn Pool, Oklahoma's First World-Class Oil Field

by Doug Hicks

Nearly Forgotten The Amazing Story of the Glenn Pool, Oklahoma's First World-Class Oil Doug Nearly Forgotten The Amazing Story of the Glenn Pool, Oklahoma's First World-Class Oil SchnakeTurbo Frank, FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Published by SchnakeTurbo Frank, Inc., 2005. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf/edgewear. Seller 389055 History

182 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Lynn]

I got this book as a part of the "gift basket" that educators are given for participating in the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board (OERB) workshop for educators. With the number of teachers taking part in the workshop, each given 5 or 6 copies of the book, nearly every middle to high school library in Oklahoma must have several copies in their collection.

I figured that I should go ahead and read this, and I did so in one day's reading.

It's actually pretty good, not great, but good. I enjoy history, and I particularly enjoy anything I can learn about the state of my birth where I have lived all but 9 years of my life There are many familiar names in the book: Marland, Skelly, Phillips, and Gilcrease to name a few. But there are many names that I never knew were an important part of Oklahoma's petroleum history, in particular Bob Galbreath who discovered and brought in the first world-class oil field when he successfully drilled the Ida Glenn #1 in what came to be known as the Glenn Pool oil field.

Galbreath, for some reason, is not well known to Oklahomans in general because he success was overshadowed by names more familiar to us, the main reason being that he did not succeed in developing the companies that Skelly and Phillips did. Doug Hicks seeks to correct this as best he can by devoting a large part of this book to Galbreath.

Hicks writes with a folksy style that seeks to match the folk heroes about whom he writes. I appreciated the most being introduced to Clarence Page, who founded Sand Springs. I saw his statue across from the museum that once housed the library he had build for the city. A charitable man, Page founded a children's home and provided housing for widow's and their children that exist to this day.

Recommended to those interested in an important part of Oklahoma history.

[Joe]

Pretty interesting book about the start of the oil business in Oklahoma.