Excerpt from The Salt Creek Oil Field: Natrona County, Wyo During the last two years the region lying north of Casper, Wyoming, near the northern border of Natrona County, has shown promise of becoming an important factor in the production of high grade oils of paraffin base. The developed field lies in townships 39 and 40 north, ranges 78 and 79 west of the sixth principal meridian, in the drainage basin of Salt Creek, the wells obtaining their oil from a sandstone in the upper portion of the Benton formation, which underlies the region. The extremely high grade of the oil, which ranges from 37 to 43 Beaume, and the great productiveness of the wells, which yield from 0 to 1200 barrels of oil per day, are among the things which are attracting wide-spread attention to the region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Salt Creek, the Saga of a Rocky Mountain Oil Field, traces the 180-year history of one of America's major oil fields. Told through a series of interconnected stories, each written from a different person's perspective, Salt Creek brings to life the dreamers, schemers, scoundrels, visionaries, geologists, and tenacious men and women whose efforts ultimately led to the discovery of hundreds of millions of barrels of oil in Wyoming's sagebrush country.As in Sam L. Pfiester's previous oil history novels (The Golden Lane, Solomon's Temple) all the characters are real people and all the incidents actually happened. Pfiester's rich storytelling, based on years of intensive historical research, highlights hope and opportunity, avarice and exploitation, failure and tenacity, and ultimately, success and community--a true story of the American West.