Why was spindletop significant to texas history

Commemorating the importance of the Lucas Geyser?the first major gusher of the Texas Oil Boom and all.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.