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Four Miles Down, Four Barrels Up: Oklahoma Stripper Wells
We’re in oil country now, riding through Oklahoma. There’s clanking in the bushes where the crickets buzz at noon.
If you take a closer look, you’ll find an oil well.
They call them “stripper wells” around here. They get four or five barrels up per day. Some more, some less.
But most of them make that clanking noise.
I take Woody and Maggie closer for a look.
The Fine Grey Lines: Mule Travel on Oklahoma Dirt Roads
The DeLorme road map of Oklahoma looks like a sheet of graph paper.
The roads are set out on a grid. The fat lines are your major interstates and highways. I-40’s the big blue line. Highway 9 is red and slim.
The dirt roads are the fine grey lines.
I like to follow them because they cut right through the heart of Sooner Country. That means few… Continue reading
