The oil industry has given Texas families a good living. Those high-paying jobs and the black gold workers extracted from the earth were at the center of the region’s economy for decades. Oil has been ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A trip to the East Texas Oil Museum in Kilgore is a trip back in time to the 1930s oil boom. “Oil was everywhere here,” said Olivia Moore, museum director. At the time of ...

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