A Dramatist’s Guide to Tulsa

In 1901 oil was discovered four miles west of Tulsa, OK, in Red Fork. By 1905, when oil was discovered in Glenn Pool, twelve miles south of Red Fork, Tulsa was already known as the oil capital of the world. From 1923 to 1979, Tulsa was the home of international petroleum exposition. Hundreds of thousands of visitors gathered in Tulsa to celebrate the oil industry. In 1966, the Golden Driller, an eight-story statue of an oil worker resting his right hand on an oil derrick, became a permanent fixture at the Tulsa Fairgrounds. The Driller is the sixth-tallest statue in the United States and in 1979 became the state monument.
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