How Long to Read Oil Cities

How Long Does it Take to Read Oil Cities?

It takes the average reader to read Oil Cities by Henry Alexander Wiencek

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Description

How international oil companies navigated the local, segregated landscape of north Louisiana in the first decades of the twentieth century. In 1904, prospectors discovered oil in the rural parishes of North Louisiana just outside Shreveport. As rural cotton fields gave way to dense, industrial centers of energy extraction, migrants from across the US--and the world--rushed to take a share of the boom. The resulting boomtowns, most notoriously Oil City, quickly gained a reputation for violence, drinking, and rough living. Meanwhile, North Louisiana's large Black population endured virulent white supremacy in the oil fields and the courtrooms to earn their own piece of the boom, including one Black woman who stood to become the wealthiest oil heiress in America. In Oil Cities, Henry Wiencek uncovers what life was like amidst the tent cities, saloons, and oil derricks of North Louisiana's oil boomtowns, tracing the local experiences of migrants, farmers, sex workers, and politicians as they navigated dizzying changes to their communities. This first historical monograph on the region's dramatic oil boom reveals a contested history, in which the oil industry had to adapt its labor, tools, and investments to meet North Louisiana's unique economic, social, political, and environmental dynamics.

How long is Oil Cities?

Oil Cities by Henry Alexander Wiencek is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

This makes it 0% the length of the average book. It also has 0% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Oil Cities Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read Oil Cities aloud.

What Reading Level is Oil Cities?

Oil Cities is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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