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Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers : Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields /
Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire-and did, for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Prologue
- 1. Breaking In
- 2. From Weevil to Top Hand
- 3. My First Boom: Nigger Creek/Mexia
- 4. The Bruner Boom in Luling
- 5. The Free State
- 6. The East Texas Depression
- 7. Fading Depression, Fading Boom
- 8. Hard Rock Drilling in Hobbs and Oklahoma City; Leaving East Texas
- 9. Cayuga and Mabank, Then on to Illinois and a New World
- 10. West Texas-S-H-K and Big Lake
- 11. Back to Odessa, Still Drilling
- 12. Pushing Tools: Starting, Then Becoming the Loner
- 13. Kermit and New Mexico: The Exodus from Odessa
- 14. The Tulk Field
- 15. Andrews and the Maguetex
- 16. Back to New Mexico: Wildcat at Clovis
- 17. Wildcat at Grandfalls, Then on to Lovington, Sweetwater, and Lovington Again
- 18. Winding Up
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Index