THE FIRST BARREL
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THE FIRST BARREL Book 1
4 parts · 14 h 21 min
Cleveland, 1863 to 1911. A twenty-four-year-old produce commission merchant with a genius for bookkeeping puts money into a kerosene still on Kingsbury Run and discovers the thing the drillers in Pennsylvania never saw: the wells were a lottery, and the barrel between the well and the lamp was not. John D.
THE FIRST BARREL Book 2
4 parts · 15 h 24 min
Cleveland and Florida, 1830 to 1913. Henry Flagler went broke in salt at Saginaw, spent nine years paying back what he owed, and arrived at a kerosene refinery on Kingsbury Run as the one man in the building who knew how to write a contract.
THE FIRST BARREL Book 3
4 parts · 16 h 1 min
Baku and St. Petersburg, 1873 to 1920. A Swedish arms manufacturer sends his elder brother to the Caucasus to buy walnut wood for rifle stocks.
THE FIRST BARREL Book 4
4 parts · 15 h 41 min
Texas, Oklahoma, New Jersey and the Arabian desert, 1901 to 2003. These are the men who did the thing the rest of the series says does not work: they owned the ground. Monty Moncrief drilled twenty-nine dry holes before the thirtieth came in. H. L.
THE FIRST BARREL Book 5
4 parts · 15 h 14 min
Houston and the sea, 1869 to 1992. Two men took a toll on every barrel the American oil industry lifted and neither of them ever owned a producing well.
THE FIRST BARREL Book 6
4 parts · 16 h 30 min
Antwerp, New York and Zug, 1934 to 2013. A refugee child who arrived in America speaking no English went to work in a metals trader's mailroom and ended by taking a cut of cargoes he never owned, on tankers he never chartered, out of fields he never drilled.