Ethan Hyde Photography

McKittrick Hillside

Early light on a scrubby hillside of the McKittrick oil field, scattered with pipes, wellheads and power poles.

Early light on a scrubby hillside of the McKittrick oil field, scattered with pipes, wellheads and power poles.

The 1896 Shamrock gusher here was the San Joaquin Valley's first significant oil well.

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