Then it was on to the oil town of Wharton, his birthplace.
Libyan rebels again advanced towards the oil town of Brega.
Working-class millionaires can still be found in the oil towns of Texas, as well.
In 1990 Wink remained a small oil town with a population of 1,189.
In the early 1900s, Griffithsville was a booming oil town.
Kazakhstan has asked the UN to help investigate violence that left 16 dead in an oil town last week.
Now 80,000 people live in the oil town.
In Siberian oil towns, the companies, not government, pay for home construction, schools, health care and municipal services.
At the height of Texas's late great boom, all roads led here to the overheated oil town that defined the state in the 1970's.
The town is noted for its boom as an oil town and subsequent near abandonment.