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Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901
Stiles, Jo Ann; Linsley, Judith Walker; Rienstra, Ellen Walker
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paperback. How did a profligate who killed a deputy sheriff before reforming, a mining engineer who went AWOL from the Austrian navy, and three East Texas drillers join forces with other equally colorful characters to drill on Spindletop Hill? This book provides the answers. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JJC; HBTK; KNBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
How did a profligate who killed a deputy sheriff before reforming, a mining engineer who went AWOL from the Austrian navy, and three East Texas drillers join forces with other equally colorful characters to drill on Spindletop Hill? The answers are all here - the challenge and frustration of the search, the excitement of the discovery, the euphoric chaos of the boom, and the genesis of the giant companies.In this scholarly work firmly rooted in the narrative tradition, and using material collected over decades, the authors bring to life the efforts of Pattillo Higgins, Anthony Lucas, Al and Curt Hamill, ... Read more
How did a profligate who killed a deputy sheriff before reforming, a mining engineer who went AWOL from the Austrian navy, and three East Texas drillers join forces with other equally colorful characters to drill on Spindletop Hill? The answers are all here - the challenge and frustration of the search, the excitement of the discovery, the euphoric chaos of the boom, and the genesis of the giant companies.In this scholarly work firmly rooted in the narrative tradition, and using material collected over decades, the authors bring to life the efforts of Pattillo Higgins, Anthony Lucas, Al and Curt Hamill, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Austin, United States
ISBN
9780876112366
SKU
V9780876112366
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99-1
About Stiles, Jo Ann; Linsley, Judith Walker; Rienstra, Ellen Walker
Southeast Texas natives ELLEN WALKER RIENSTRA and JUDITH WALKER LINSLEY are sisters with undergraduate and graduate degrees from Lamar University. Rienstra is a violinist and historical consultant. Linsley is a researcher for the McFaddin-Ward House, a history instructor at Lamar, a newspaper columnist, and editor of The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record. This is their first collaboration with JO ... Read more
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