I.  Background and early discoveries
      A.  Corsicana, 1894
  II.  Spindletop, 1901
      A.  Patillo Higgins
      B.  Anthony Lucas
      C.  the Andrew Mellon interests
      D.  the Lucas Gusher
      E.  speculation and boom
   III. Expansion of the boom, 1901-1919
      A.  the next discoveries
         1.  Sour Lake, 1902
         2.  Batson, 1903
         3.  Humble, 1905
         4.  Goose Creek, 1908
      B.  the oil companies
         1.  Texas Company (J.S. Cullinan, James S. Hogg, and others)
         2.  Gulf Oil (Lucas and others)
         3.  Humble (Ross Sterling and others)
      C.  Kept out (1905): Standard Oil
  IV.  The boom expands to other states, 1901-1919
      A.  Louisiana, Oklahoma, California
  V.  Texas regains world supremacy in oil business
      A.  more huge discoveries
         1.  Mexia, 1912
         2.  Burkburnett, 1913
         3.  Ranger, 1918
         4.  Yates, 1926
         5.  East Texas, 1930
      B.  growth of oil-related industries
         1.  oil tools
            a.  Walter Sharp, Howard R. Hughes, and the Hughes rotary bit
         2.  refining
         3.  pipelines
  VI.  The Legacies of Spindletop
      A.  jobs
      B.  capital
      C.  industrialization
      D.  effects politics
      E.  economic modernization
      F.  individualism?