Salt Creek: The Saga of a Rocky Mountain Oil Field

Salt Creek, the Saga of a Rocky Mountain Oil Field, traces the 180-year history of one of America’s major oil fields. Told through a series of interconnected stories, each written from a different person’s perspective, Salt Creek brings to life the dreamers, schemers, scoundrels, visionaries, geologists, and tenacious men and women whose efforts ultimately led to the discovery of hundreds of millions of barrels of oil in Wyoming’s sagebrush country.As in Sam L. Pfiester’s previous oil history novels (The Golden Lane, Solomon’s Temple) all the characters are real people and all the incidents actually happened. Pfiester’s rich storytelling, based on years of intensive historical research, highlights hope and opportunity, avarice and exploitation, failure and tenacity, and ultimately, success and community--a true story of the American West.