Harsh Country, Hard Times : Clayton Wheat Williams and the Transfsormation of the Trans-Pecos /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pollard, Janet Williams
Other Authors: Gwin, Louis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; no. 13.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Williams, Clayton.
United States. > Army > Officers > Biography.
Statesmen > Texas > Biography.
Petroleum industry and trade > Texas > History.
Historians > Texas > Biography.
Ranchers > Texas > Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns > France.
Texas > History > 20th century.
Trans-Pecos (Tex. and N.M.) > History > 20th century.
Fort Stockton (Tex.) > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Paradise for men and dogs and hell for women and horses
  • Growing up in Fort Stockton
  • The suicide club
  • French friends and new adventures
  • Paris is bombed
  • Searching for oil west of the Pecos
  • "Dangerous business and dangerous surroundings"
  • Drilling the University No. 1-B well
  • Risk, failure, and reward
  • A public figure
  • A love of history.

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