A massive pump jack dominates the foreground against a deep Texas-blue sky, while a forest of derricks stretches to the horizon behind it — this is the legendary East Texas Oil Field centered on Kilgore, where more than 1,000 wells were once packed within city limits alone. To the left, a colorful parade of six flags chronicles every sovereign power that has claimed Texas soil: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederacy, and the United States. The poem at lower left — "A thousand miles of shore / A thousand kinds of lure / A thousand years of lore / A thousand roads to tour" — captures the boosterish mid-century spirit that made Texas chrome souvenir cards a staple of roadside gift shops from the Panhandle to the Gulf. Photographed by John A. Stryker and printed in the "Artistichrome" process by Armstrong's Western Fotocolor of Fort Worth, this unposted card is a clean example of peak-era Texas petroleum pride.