It takes the average reader 2 hours and 10 minutes to read Louisiana's Oil Heritage by Tonja Koob Marking
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Scott Heywood discovered oil in Jennings on September 21, 1901, starting a new industry for Louisiana. From the heart of Acadiana, oil fever spread north to Caddo and Pine Island, south to Hackberry and Cameron, east to Barataria and Lafourche, and into the Gulf of Mexico. The oil industry created a worker class in Louisiana that had not previously existed. Towns, complete with schools, churches, and grocery stores, developed in oil fields; in fact, cabins with clothes hanging on the line to dry were adjacent to derricks and open oil pits. Today, families proudly recount the number of their...
Louisiana's Oil Heritage by Tonja Koob Marking is 127 pages long, and a total of 32,639 words.
This makes it 43% the length of the average book. It also has 40% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 58 minutes to read Louisiana's Oil Heritage aloud.
Louisiana's Oil Heritage is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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