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Download or read book Spindletop written by James Anthony Clark and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January 10, 1901 -a momentous day in history. At 10:30 in the morning the first great American gusher "roared in like a shot from a heavy cannon and spouted oil a hundred feet over the top of the derrick out on the hummock that the world would soon know as Spindletop." Overnight the town of Beaumont, Texas became a bedlam. The population doubled and doubled again ... This is the true story of the oil discovery that changed the world -of the events leading up to it and the boom days that followed.
Book Synopsis Spindletop unwound by : Roger L. Shaffer
Download or read book Spindletop unwound written by Roger L. Shaffer and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well documented by public records, actual court reports, and newspaper accounts, this book is a true story of greed, ambition and murder in the first degree.
Book Synopsis Giant Under the Hill by : Judith Walker Linsley
Download or read book Giant Under the Hill written by Judith Walker Linsley and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Spindletop oil discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901.
Book Synopsis The Road to Spindletop by : John Stricklin Spratt
Download or read book The Road to Spindletop written by John Stricklin Spratt and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to detect and explore discernible economic trends in the development of Texas during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and to determine the significance of these long-range indicators.
Download or read book The Big Rich written by Bryan Burrough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts how Texas oil transformed wealth and power in America through the stories of the state's four most influential oil families, tracing how they rose from modest backgrounds, shaped the government, and bankrolled the rise of modern conservatism.
Book Synopsis Spindletop, where Oil Became an Industry by : Texas. Spindletop 50th Anniversary Commission
Download or read book Spindletop, where Oil Became an Industry written by Texas. Spindletop 50th Anniversary Commission and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Big Rich written by Bryan Burrough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Full of schadenfreude and speculation—and solid, timely history too.” —Kirkus Reviews “This is a portrait of capitalism as white-knuckle risk taking, yielding fruitful discoveries for the fathers, but only sterile speculation for the sons—a story that resonates with today's economic upheaval.” —Publishers Weekly “What's not to enjoy about a book full of monstrous egos, unimaginable sums of money, and the punishment of greed and shortsightedness?” —The Economist Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's spellbinding chronicle of Texas oil. Weaving together the multigenerational sagas of the industry's four wealthiest families, Burrough brings to life the men known in their day as the Big Four: Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson, all swaggering Texas oil tycoons who owned sprawling ranches and mingled with presidents and Hollywood stars. Seamlessly charting their collective rise and fall, The Big Rich is a hugely entertaining account that only a writer with Burrough's abilities-and Texas upbringing-could have written.
Download or read book Texas written by James L. Haley and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to Texas: From the Frontier to Spindletop, this history of the Lone Star State covers the Mexican Revolution of 1912, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and World War II and its aftermath.
Book Synopsis Black Gold to Bluegrass by : Fred B. McKinley
Download or read book Black Gold to Bluegrass written by Fred B. McKinley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the oil fields of Texas to Spindletop Farm of Kentucky.
Download or read book Oilfield Trash written by Bobby D. Weaver and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oilfield Trash is written in a charming, flowing style that any reader will enjoy....In Weaver's capable hands, the gypsy lives of a generation of young men unfold on the rigorous stage of drilling fields...."---Paul Spellman, author of Spindletop Boom Days --
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Petroleum News written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Oil in Texas by : Diana Davids Hinton
Download or read book Oil in Texas written by Diana Davids Hinton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the oil boom that transformed the history of a state, drawn from archives and first-person accounts. As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10, 1901, the Spindletop gusher blew in. Over the next fifty years, oil transformed Texas, creating a booming economy that built cities, attracted out-of-state workers and companies, funded schools and universities, and generated wealth that raised the overall standard of living, even for blue-collar workers. No other twentieth-century development had a more profound effect upon the state. This book chronicles the explosive growth of the Texas oil industry from the first commercial production at Corsicana in the 1890s through the vital role of Texas oil in World War II. Using both archival records and oral histories, they follow the wildcatters and the gushers as the oil industry spread into almost every region of the state. The authors trace the development of many branches of the petroleum industry: pipelines, refining, petrochemicals, and natural gas. They also explore how overproduction and volatile prices led to increasing regulation and gave broad regulatory powers to the Texas Railroad Commission.
Download or read book Water-supply Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Visit Sunny Chernobyl by : Andew Blackwell
Download or read book Visit Sunny Chernobyl written by Andew Blackwell and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth. From the hidden bars and convenience stores of a radioactive wilderness to the sacred but reeking waters of India, Visit Sunny Chernobyl fuses immersive first-person reporting with satire and analysis, making the case that it's time to start appreciating our planet as it is—not as we wish it would be. Irreverent and reflective, the book is a love letter to our biosphere's most tainted, most degraded ecosystems, and a measured consideration of what they mean for us. Equal parts travelogue, expose, environmental memoir, and faux guidebook, Blackwell careens through a rogue's gallery of environmental disaster areas in search of the worst the world has to offer—and approaches a deeper understanding of what's really happening to our planet in the process.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry by : Marius S. Vassiliou
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry written by Marius S. Vassiliou and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry presents a concise but complete one-volume reference on the history of the petroleum industry from pre-modern times to the present day. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on companies, people, events, technologies, phenomena, countries, provinces, cities, and regions related to the history of the world's petroleum industry. Anyone interested in the history, status, and outlook for the petroleum industry will find this book a uniquely valuable source.
Book Synopsis Oil Fields of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coastal Plain by : Charles Willard Hayes
Download or read book Oil Fields of the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coastal Plain written by Charles Willard Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
