How did Oil Prospectors originally go about trying to discover oil?

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I have been reading “Wildcatter” oilmen, and how they would prospect for oil at times uncertain if there was any oil to be found. What I would like to know, is how did they try to discover oil in the first place?

Would they dig a hole and try to hit oil? Would they just set up an oil rig and start drilling into the ground?

Could this be done by one person, or two? Or would you need an entire crew to do it?

I imagine alot of people when they bought an oil plot, staked all their money on it and could’nt afford a crew.

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Come and listen to my story
‘Bout a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer,
Barely kept his family fed.
And then one day
He was shootin’ at some food,
And up through the ground came a-bubblin’ crude.

Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

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