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S5 E4: Up to Heaven and Down to Hell

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The Wildcat Christianity of the Early American Oil Man

Dochek says the other kind of early American oil man in the Southwest is doing something different. This is what he calls wildcat Christianity. And that is representative of those small oil producers who were driven out of the business by the Rockefellers. Many of them moved west past the Mississippi to Texas and California and Oklahoma.

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