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Spindletop, Beaumont Texas, 1902: A grainy black and white photographic image depicts a veritable man-made monoculture, a forest of derricks with their criss-cross of struts all tapering to an identical height. A few wafts of steam issue from shacks crouched among the ranks of wooden frames and in the foreground, there is what looks like a storage tank, standing within what can only be imagined to be a morass of mud.
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Daley, T. (2018). Gas on Tap. In: A Play for Oil . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67985-3_7
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