This article examines how concepts of mergers and acquisitions shaped potential horizontal mergers, namely stock swaps, and vertical mergers shaped oil and ranching on the Southern Great Plains in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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揭秘：并购、石油和天然气以及南部大平原的牧场，1921-1933

本文研究了合并和收购的概念如何影响潜在的横向合并，即股票互换，以及纵向合并如何影响 1920 年代末和 1930 年代初南部大平原的石油和牧场。