History Minute: Sidney Umsted | El Dorado News
A man once said that the harder he worked, the luckier he got. For some people, that has proven true. Persistence often makes the difference between success and failure. Some people see opportunity, make plans, and charge ahead. Others let life pass them by. Sidney Umsted saw an opportunity before many others realized it was there. His persistence led to him becoming the Father of the Smackover Oil Field, becoming the first to strike oil in one of the richest oil fields in the state in the 1920s.
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