References

Oil & Gas

1  “Gas discovered accidentally in hunt for water.” Shreveport Journal. 14 Jan. 1980. Louisiana State University in
    Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Oil and Gas.

2  “Discovery of natural gas recalled.” Shreveport Times. 5 Dec. 1976. 2-C. Louisiana State University in
    Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Oil and Gas.

3  “History of the Caddo Courthouse.” Caddo Parish Commission Handbook. Shreveport: Caddo Parish
    Commission.,19.

4  Jones, J. Marshall. “History of the Ark-La-Tex Oil Industry.” North Louisiana Historical Association Journal. Vol.
    12, No. 2,3. Spring and Summer of 1981. 70.

5  Reeves, William D. Historic Louisiana. San Antonio, Texas: Historical Publishing Network, 2003. 59; Jones, 70;
   Thomson and Meador, 48.

6  Jones, 70.

7  Forbes, Gerald. “A History of Caddo oil and gas fields.” Louisiana Historical Quarterly. 29.1. 1946. 60.

8  Casperson, Luvonia J. “The Development of the Caddo Oil and Gas Field.” Glimpses of Shreveport. Ann McLaurin
    ed. Natchitoches: Northwestern State University Press, 1985.

9  Reeves, 59.

10 “A 50th Anniversary for Gas.” Shreveport Magazine. 11.5. 1956 p. 26

11 “Discovery of natural gas recalled.” Shreveport Times. 5 Dec. 1976. 2-C. Louisiana State University in
    Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Oil and Gas.

12 Forbes, 60.

13 Joiner, Gary D. and Marguerite R. Plummer. Historic Shreveport Bossier. San Antonio, TX: Historical Publishing
    Network, 2000. 52.

14 Phillips, Charles. C. “The oil fields – A fascinating story yet to be told.” Shreveport Journal. 10 Oct. 1966. B-1.
    Louisiana State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Oil and
    Gas.

15 Forbes, 62.

16 “Historic highlights of the oil and gas industry in Louisiana.” Shreveport Journal. 19 Jan. 1981. 14-D. Louisiana
    State University in Shreveport Noel Memorial Library, Archives and Special Collections. VF: Oil and Gas.

17 Forbes, 65.

18 Reeves, 59; Attaway, Don. “How Mike made a million.” Shreveport Magazine. 33.8. 1978. 34.

19 Joiner and Plummer, 52.

20 Reeves, 59.

21 Rhodes, Joe. “Energy crisis triggers new oil boom in area.” Shreveport Journal. 8 Aug. 1976.

22 Joiner and Plummer, 55.

23 Reeves, 59; Burton, Willie. The Blacker the Berry … A Black History of Shreveport. Shreveport: Shreveport
    Times, 2002. 32-33.

24 Burton, 34.
 

                                                                                                                                        
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