Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

KHSU 90.5 and KHSQ 107.7 may experience intermittent outages today as our engineering team updates infrastructure. Livestreams are unaffected. Thank you for your patience.

Texas Black Gold

NPR

Published January 10, 2001 at 9:00 PM PST

NPR's John Burnett reports on the celebration in Southeast Texas of the world's most important oil strike. It's been 100 years since Spindletop first spewed out black gold.