BEAUMONT, Texas — The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop, which gave birth to the modern petroleum industry and transformed Beaumont into an oil boom town, marks its 124th anniversary on Friday. The historic ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — A Southeast Texas blacksmith is demonstrating a centuries-old craft at the Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum, showing visitors how metalworkers shaped tools essential to the ...

Michelle Cate gently handles a ceramic mug that once belonged to Pattillo Higgins, one of the men behind the discovery of oil at Spindletop’s Lucas Gusher in 1901. It is a modest object but has close ...

The so-called Spindletop gusher, known for triggering the Texas oil boom in 1901, established the state’s leadership of the US oil industry for many decades and launched its enormous contribution to ...

NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Oil fields are just as quick to make fortunes as break them. The 1901 Spindletop gusher in Texas jumpstarted the petroleum age, crashing oil prices. A mere ...