Book 1870
Petrolia: A Brief History of the Pennsylvania Petroleum Region
Cone, Andrew, and Walter R. Johns. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870.
Cone, Andrew, and Walter R. Johns. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870.
Every price in the game is a real period price, converted once into today's dollars at its own year's price level. Crude follows the recorded annual series: $595 a barrel in 1859, $18 in the 1861 glut, $172 in 1864.