A small group of men step down from their horses and unload their tools. Together they assemble the most profitable invention ever made. Piece by piece, a small wooden tower begins to build over a giant hole in the ground. Several weeks later digging had commenced and now preparations were complete to start draining the desert of it’s history. At the base of the dark hole stand two men who await the iron rod to drop. Edwin Drake raises his hand, SHUNK and the history of oil in America has begun.