Two weeks ago, I was driving through Glenpool, Oklahoma with a friend when we saw signs advertising "Black Gold Days." We decided to stop at the weekend-long celebration of Glenpool's oil-rich history. Even though I was raised in Tulsa and stayed there for college, I never knew much about the black gold history that put Tulsa County on the worldwide radar. When the "Glen Pool" was discovered by wildcatters Robert Galbreath and Frank Chesley on November 22, 1905, little did they know that the gusher would become the largest oil discovery to date, bringing in more money than the California Gold Rush and the Colorado Silver Rush combined. Thousands of oil men, newspaper people, business men and others moved to Tulsa during the early 1900s, creating a city from almost nothing almost overnight. Daily production on Ida Glenn's farmland soon exceeded 120,000 barrels, making Tulsa the "oil capital of the world" until the 1980s. And while the fall of oil prices in the 1980s hurt the Tulsa and Glenpool economy, Tulsa County is back on its feet again, with many oil-rich families moving to Glenpool. For more information on Oklahoma's history, you can request a copy of Oil and Gas Investor's supplement, "Oklahoma: Where Energy Reigns," by calling (713) 993-9320. –Lindsay Goodier, Online Editor, OilandGasInvestor.com; www.OilandGasInvestor.com; lgoodier@hartenergy.com