Rocky Mountains
The first commercial oil well in the Rocky Mountains was drilled near Canon City, Colorado in 1862. The wells in the Canyon City-Florence field, drilled near surface oil seeps, produced from fractures in the Pierre Shale.
- Bighorn Basin
- Denver Basin
- Green River Basin
- North Park (Colorado basin)
- Paradox Basin
- Piceance Basin
- Powder River Basin
- Raton Basin
- San Juan Basin
- Uinta Basin
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“Who will join in the march to the Rocky Mountains with me, a sort of high-pressure-double-cylinder-go-it-ahead-forty-wildcats- tearin’ sort of a feller?... Git out of this warming-pan, ye holly-hocks, and go out to the West where you may be seen.”
—Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)