Word: hugoton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sulphur empire. Cooking deals like popcorn, Odie was one of the founders of Texas Gulf Producing Co., which has large oil reserves in the Gulf states, was one of the powers in what is now Freeport Sulphur Co. He and Moody developed and owned the famed Hugoton natural-gas field in southern Kansas and Oklahoma-"a deal," says a friend, "that has never been equaled in the world -it was worth $6 billion...
When Angeline was three, in 1918, the Crowell farm failed, and the family moved to another farm near Hugoton, Kans...