In this paper, I will determine the subsurface structure of the Spencer Consolidated Oil Field occupying Sections 1, 2, 11-15, 22, 26, and 27 of Township 8 South, Range 14 West, Posey County, Indiana (Uniontown 7 1/2" Quadrangle).Oil production in the Spencer Consolidated is from three principal formations. These are, in descending stratigraphic order, the Renault Formation, Aux Vases Sandstone, and Ste. Genevieve Limestone, in which the producing zones are referred to as either McClosky sands or oolitic bodies. Mapping the configuration of the oilbearing rocks and defining the distribution of these rocks will be my main concern.Structure contour maps of these three formations were prepared, as were isopach maps of the base of the lower Renault limestone and the Aux Vases Sandstone. There are insufficient data points defining the Ste. Genevieve.For the possible recovery of new hydrocarbons within the Spencer Consolidated and the exploration of existing traps, electric log correlation sections, both transverse and parallel to the surrounding faults, were made. For reliability and consistency, only those wells with electric logs were used.

This project explicates the ways in which writers from different cultural groups (Anglo American, American Indian, and Mexican American) used literature to defend the land claims of increasingly marginalized peoples within the United States around the turn of the twentieth century. Each of the writers I discuss (Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Alexander Posey, Charles Lummis, and Helen Hunt Jackson) constructs and manipulates racial hierarchies in order to assert the comparative virtues of the cultural group for whom they advocate. I explore each writer's perceptions of proper land use and legitimate land claims and how these perceptions are informed by disparate cultural inheritances. By looking at authors from different backgrounds, writing from different regions in the United States, I am able to establish the frequency with which racialist assumptions guided popular opinion and U.S. law around the turn of the twentieth century--specifically in regards to land claims. I situate my reading of literary works within the historical context that made competitions for land particularly fierce during this period.