John Henry Fairbank / Fairbank / Old Fairbank / For Fairbank / /
Continent
North America / /
Country
Austria / Canada / /
Facility
bar Was / Fairbank mansion / Another factory / trail You / Victoria Hall / /
IndustryTerm
oil field / oil fields / natural gas / oil production / famous oil baron / oil / oil boom / metal men / friendly giant / oil gusher / oil pool / foreign oil / /
NaturalFeature
Niagara Falls / /
Person
James Gordon / Edna / Madame Orloff / William McGarvey / Sandra Swannell / Steve Greer / Glen Teeple / Steve Hardy / James Miller Williams / Jane Lewis / Ashley Condon / Can / Evan Gordon / Shaw Read / Henry / /
The Shaw Gusher Hugh Nixon Shaw – what a story! This man − penniless, almost shoeless − spent everything he had to find oil. Suddenly at ten o’clock in the morning of Friday, January 16, 1862, he struck oil! The