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Southland Royalty Company: The Long Journey Back Home to Oklahoma

$25.00

SKU: TC# 528

By Shelley Bird Johnson

Hardcover

The story of Southland Royalty Company really begins with Marland Oil Company and William Hartman McFadden. He met up with Ernest Whitworth Marland and George Miller of the 101 Ranch, and the two of them convinced Will McFadden to invest in a new venture to discover oil in the new frontier of Oklahoma.

It was McFadden's expertise in the steel industry that expedited one of the first huge 'steel tank farms' in Oklahoma. He oversaw the building of a tank a day in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and should be considered a founding father of Marland Oil, Southland Royalty Company, Conoco and ConocoPhillips. His tanks still stand today in Ponca City as testament, as well as his home in Ponca City, located at 210 South Tenth Street.

Shelley Bird Johnson said that her inspiration for researching and writing this book was a cold day in downtown Ponca City when she read the plaque on the Royalty Building at the corner of 4th and Grand. The plaque states that the Southland Royalty Company had occupied offices on the second floor of the building. Later she was to learn that the company not only had an office there, but it was actually created there in 1924. As a former employee of Southland Royalty Company and a current employee of ConocoPhillips, she said she felt compelled to document the history of this rich heritage.

102 pages of historical information, photographs and timelines from its inception in 1924 through the 1985 takeover! Brown hardback with gold lettering on the cover

Price: $25.00