In 1912, Tom Slick (his real name) was passing through what’s now Drumright, Oklahoma, when he smelled oil. He bought the land for $1 an acre and started digging, uncovering what was then Oklahoma’s biggest oil well.
It sounds implausible, but there really are stories like that everywhere out here in the west. You can’t make this shit up.
It sounds implausible, but there really are stories like that everywhere out here in the west. You can’t make this shit up.
Or he trespassed to prospect and came up with that story before the owners found out about it
Dang. He drank their milkshake. Their milkshake brang all the Slicks to the yard.