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Book Synopsis The Spindletop Gusher by : Carmen Bredeson
Download or read book The Spindletop Gusher written by Carmen Bredeson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the discovery of oil in Beaumont, Texas, in 1901, focusing on the gusher, speculators, quick fortunes, and population explosion which led to the broader significance of oil as a new energy source.
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 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 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.
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 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In this book, Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien chronicle 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 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 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 --
Book Synopsis Texas Oil and Gas by : Jeff A. Spencer
Download or read book Texas Oil and Gas written by Jeff A. Spencer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Oil and Gas documents in postcards the rapid growth of the Texas petroleum industry from its beginnings near Corsicana in the 1890s through the next several decades of oil booms throughout the state. The young 20th century opened with the Lucas Gusher at Spindletop in 1901. Thousands rushed from the oilfields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia to find work and riches. Continued drilling success along the Texas Gulf Coast transformed Houston into a major city and the Beaumont area into a major petrochemical center. Through the 1910s and 1920s, oil booms occurred in North Texas, the Panhandle, Central Texas, and West Texas. The giant East Texas oilfield, the second largest North American oilfield to Alaskas North Slope, was discovered in 1930. Texas oil replaced coal as fuel for the nations railroads and provided fuel for our military in two world wars.
Book Synopsis Josh and the Gusher by : Margery Moorhouse
Download or read book Josh and the Gusher written by Margery Moorhouse and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Spindletop oil discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901.
Book Synopsis Texaco's Port Arthur Works, a Legacy of Spindletop and Sour Lake by : Elton N. Gish
Download or read book Texaco's Port Arthur Works, a Legacy of Spindletop and Sour Lake written by Elton N. Gish and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book details the 100-year history (1903 to 2003) of Texaco's Port Arthur refinery, Port Arthur Terminal, and Port Neches refinery. It contains 408 pages with more than 1200 photographs that show every aspect of running a refinery. Many of them have no"
Book Synopsis Texas Boomtowns: A History of Blood and Oil by : Bartee Haile
Download or read book Texas Boomtowns: A History of Blood and Oil written by Bartee Haile and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 10, 1901, Beaumont awoke to the historic roar of the Spindletop gusher. A flood of frantic fortune seekers heard its call and quickly descended on the town. Over the next three decades, Texas's first oil rush transformed the sparsely populated rural state practically beyond recognition. Brothels, bordellos and slums overran sleepy towns, and thick, black oil spilled over once-green pastures. While dreams came true for a precious few, most settled for high-risk, dangerous jobs in the oilfields and passed what spare time they had in the vice districts fueled by crude. From the violent shanties of Desdemona and Mexia to Borger and beyond, wildcat speculators, grifters and barons took the land for all it was worth. Author Bartee Haile explores the story of these wild and wooly boomtowns.
Book Synopsis Pattillo Higgins and the Search for Texas Oil by : Robert W. McDaniel
Download or read book Pattillo Higgins and the Search for Texas Oil written by Robert W. McDaniel and published by . This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas and wildcatters--they go together. And Pattillo Higgins was the granddaddy of them all. Without him Spindletop, Texas' first gusher, would never have been drilled, and the history of the modern oil industry might have been far different. Here for the first time is his dramatic, almost mystifying story, based on his personal papers and told by his grandnephew. It was Pattillo Higgins who showed the more famous Captain Anthony Lucas where to drill at Spindletop. He organized the Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company in 1892, and he located oil fields all over Texas and Louisiana--as many as 100 independent fields, some still unexplored. Although often doubted, he has never yet been proven wrong on one. In his career he gained and lost several fortunes, opened the first brick plant in southeast Texas, and operated a logging enterprise on the Neches River. He was once acquitted in a murder trial, experienced a religious conversion, and married his adopted daughter. But throughout his life the search for oil was his chief preoccupation--one he never abandoned. This is the story of a determined, dedicated individual who took large risks in order to find black gold. It firmly gives Pattillo Higgins his rightful place as one of the three or four great names in the Texas oil industry.
Download or read book Spindletop written by James Anthony Clark and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the oil discovery in Texas that changed the world -- of the events leading up to it and the boom days that followed.
Download or read book The Oil Bubble written by Samuel P. Irvin and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gusher at Spindletop by : William Owens
Download or read book Gusher at Spindletop written by William Owens and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the first great Texas oil well, which ushered in a new century and a new age, as remembered by participants.
Book Synopsis Historic Beaumont by : Ellen Walker Rienstra
Download or read book Historic Beaumont written by Ellen Walker Rienstra and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Beaumont, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
