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Frank Phillips was a good man,,,by most accounts..that I've heard.

I live in the Osage....Lot's of stories around here.

Nothing but stripper wells here now.....

But Frank and his brother made a lot of people very rich back then...

Yah…. Lots of stripper wells in Osage. Been that way for a long time, real long time. A guy I went to college with managed then inherited his family's 5000 acre ranch towards Pawhuska. Lots of cattle and hay fields. Zero royalties since the Osage tribe owns the mineral rights. I imagine he gets a small revenue stream via access road and other surface easements though.

In the 70-80s, there was a boom in a number of the old oil fields that kick started when deep exploratory wells hit huge natural gas deposits. Anadarko/Lindsey and Elk City come to mind. Similarly deep wells in the old Healdton/Ardmore fields found enough oil + natural gas to resurrect their production activity.

I don’t know what if anything happened to bring the Glen Pool or Seminole fields back to life. The OKC field had a bit of a fracking boom - Drilling wells in the east side of town in the 2000s.