The Greatest Oil Well in the World: The Lakeview Gusher

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One strike was so spectacular that not only did it make fortunes, it’s spouting flow of black gold became a tourist attraction. The granddaddy of gushers, the Lakeview Gusher blew past records, and became called “the mecca of the oilfields,” and “the greatest oil well in the world.”

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