1.   Occasionally we would pass a big orange flame at a well site, throwing spokes of shadow across the prairie.

2.   Animals, meanwhile, and especially howler monkeys, can be scared off by the roar of the Hercules helicopters transporting equipment daily to the well sites.

3.   A photographer from Playboy magazine was the last person Rex Broaddus expected to show up at a Union Pacific Resources Co. well site here.

4.   But a few carefully placed links on the Well site could attract just the sort of sophisticated, Web-savvy readers Salon covets.

5.   If all goes according to plan, a marker would identify the well site and there would be signs telling the Spindletop story.

6.   On the cement platform, which stands just feet from the well site, they have placed a small, round, brass plate designating the ground as historic.

7.   RWE selected the well site.

8.   The ground is littered with chunks of yellow sulfur and debris from well sites long since abandoned.

9.   The original well site is on private property accessible only by a muddy mining road that is closed to the public.

10.   Its plans were scrapped after two protesters occupied the metal casing surrounding the well site.