Making Tulsa “Oil Capital of the World”
Among the great Oklahoma oilfields, Glenn Pool in 1905 helped the careers of Sinclair, Getty and others.
Greater than the 1901 discoveries at nearby Red Fork and Spindletop Hill in Texas, the Oklahoma Territory Glenn Pool field produced a “light and sweet” oil from the Creek Indian Reservation. It would help make Tulsa the “Oil Capital of the World.”
On a chilly fall morning in 1905 — two years before Oklahoma became a state — oil was discovered on the Glenn family farm south of Tulsa. The oilfield discovery well launched a drilling boom that greatly exceeded the first Oklahoma oil well of 1897 at Bartlesville. (more…)
