Between the Wars
By Laura Kaufmann
The Flood of 1927
Arkansas was the state where the flood was the most damaging. Waiting to be rescued, people and animals climed on trees and sat on roofs for saftey from the 30 foot deep water. The Red Cross opened 50 camps to help people who had lost their homes in the flood but many poeple began to become sick inside of the camps. In some areas it took months for the water levels to drop to normal again
Oil and Boom Towns
Boom Towns: El Dorado is where people dreamed of strking rich once they heard about the big oil gusher. It was home to 59 oil companies and even grew to a populaion of 30,00 residents in a short period of time. The Next big find was in a town called Smackover. The town grew from only having 131 residents to 25,000.
Oil Disvoeries: The first big find in El Dorado had thousands of gallons of oil spweing out of it. People rushed to towns were oil was found ot look for work and hoping to become a rich. Not to far from there, a town called Smackover recently discovered oil. The small town went from 121 residents to 25,000 very fast. The town grew violent not to long after. But by the end of the decade, Production levels had gone from 58 million barrels to 28 million.