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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,
1987.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Personal narratives of the West series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 iniquity that some feared. In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider's view of the oil industry, describing life in various oil fields in and around Texas. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how these changes affected him and his fellow oil-field workers. No one else has written a working-class history of the oil fields as colorful and articulate as this one.--Amazon.com. |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9780292786349 0292786344 |