The Texas General Land office has all kinds of amazing artifacts from Texas' past. I get a copy of their newsletter from time to time and the current one had a link to this pictorial map of the East Texas Field. What immediately struck me was all the Bar-B-Q shacks dotted among the oil derricks. I guess the oil fields ran on BBQ power!
Here's the link to the article and you can actually purchase a copy of this map from the Land Office.
https://medium.com/save-texas-history/map-of-east-texas-oil-field-16cffdfe8bd0
Here's a link to the map itself. You can zoom in and out.
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