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Season 2 Episode 5 55 min
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S2 E5: Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil

The tale of mavericks whose risk-taking, sweat and dreams changed an American industry. Starting with Spindletop, the first Texas gusher in 1902, rare archival film and interviews with pioneering oilmen are set against a contemporary story of a modern "wildcatter," gambling to find his fortune in yet another narrow hole in the Texas earth.

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Season 2 Episodes

16 episodes
E1 The Great Air Race of 1924 E2 Demon Rum E3 A Family Gathering E4 The Great War: 1918 E5 Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil E6 Forever Baseball E7 Mr. Sears' Catalogue E8 Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven E9 Adam Clayton Powell E10 Journey to America E11 Ballad of a Mountain Man E12 Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice E13 Orphans of the Storm E14 Forbidden City, USA E15 Battle for Wilderness E16 Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad

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