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Book Synopsis Southwestern Stories & Tales of the Oil Field by : alan w greenwood
Download or read book Southwestern Stories & Tales of the Oil Field written by alan w greenwood and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is an anthology of previously unpublished short stories collected over the years and--up until now--resting in computer files. His wife Barbara and his first editor, Sue Gottwald have encouraged him for years to release them to the public for perusal--so here they are, collected for the first time.".
Download or read book Oil! written by Carl Coke Rister and published by Norman, U. Oklahoma P. This book was released on 1949 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of "the rush for oil riches in the great Mid-Continent and Gulf producing area ... embraces the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico--the scene of many fabulous strikes, including Spindletop, Glenn Pool, Mexia, Oklahoma City, and East Texas."
Book Synopsis A Critical Study of Southwestern Oilfield Fiction by : Lisa Mary Urbanczyk
Download or read book A Critical Study of Southwestern Oilfield Fiction written by Lisa Mary Urbanczyk and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 American Folklore by : Jan Harold Brunvand
Download or read book American Folklore written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-24 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority
Book Synopsis The New Wild West by : Blaire Briody
Download or read book The New Wild West written by Blaire Briody and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Williston, North Dakota was a sleepy farm town for generations—until the frackers arrived. The oil companies moved into Williston, overtaking the town and setting off a boom that America hadn’t seen since the Gold Rush. Workers from all over the country descended, chasing jobs that promised them six-figure salaries and demanded no prior experience. But for every person chasing the American dream, there is a darker side—reports of violence and sexual assault skyrocketed, schools overflowed, and housing prices soared. Real estate is such a hot commodity that tent cities popped up, and many workers’ only option was to live out of their cars. Farmers whose families had tended the land for generations watched, powerless, as their fields were bulldozed to make way for one oil rig after another. Written in the vein Ted Conover and Jon Krakauer, using a mix of first-person adventure and cultural analysis, The New Wild West is the definitive account of what’s happening on the ground and what really happens to a community when the energy industry is allowed to set up in a town with little regulation or oversight—and at what cost.
Book Synopsis Oil and gas development in southwest Texas by : Southwest Texas Oil Scouts Association
Download or read book Oil and gas development in southwest Texas written by Southwest Texas Oil Scouts Association and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Southwest written by Elva A. Harmon and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated bibliography of fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and folklore from and about the southwestern region of the United States.
Book Synopsis Folklore of the Oil Industry by : Mody Coggin Boatright
Download or read book Folklore of the Oil Industry written by Mody Coggin Boatright and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall tales, anecdotes and songs of the oil fields of Texas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kansas and Oklahoma, issued with cooperation of the Texas Folklore Society.
Book Synopsis New Stories from the Southwest by : D. Seth Horton
Download or read book New Stories from the Southwest written by D. Seth Horton and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beauty and barrenness of the southwestern landscape naturallylends itself to the art of storytellers. It is a land of heat and dryness, aland of spirits, a land that is misunderstood by those living along thecoasts. New Stories from the Southwest presents nineteen short stories that appeared in North American periodicals between January and December 2006. Though many of these stories vary by aesthetics, tone, voice, and almost any other craft category one might wish to use, they are nevertheless bound together by at least one factor, which is that the landscape of the region plays a key role in their narratives. They each evoke and explore what it means to exist in thisunique corner of the country. Selected by editor D. Seth Horton, the former fiction editor for the Sonora Review, from a wide cross-section of journals and magazines, and with a foreword by noted writer Ray Gonzalez, New Stories from the Southwest presents a generous sampling of the best of contemporary fiction situated in this often overlooked area of the country. Swallow Press is particularly pleased to publish this wide-ranging collection of stories from both new and established writers. Contributors to New Stories from the Southwest are: - Alan Cheuse - Matt Clark - Lorien Crow - Kathleen De Azvedo - Alan Elyshevitz - Marcela Fuentes - Dennis Fulgoni - Ray Gonzalez - Anna Green - Donald Lucio Hurd - Toni Jensen - Charles Kemnitz - Elmo Lum - Tom McWhorter - S. G. Miller - Peter Rock - Alicita Rodriguez - John Tait - Patrick Tobin - Valery Varble
Download or read book The Iron Orchard written by Tom Pendleton and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1966 under the pen name Tom Pendleton, The Iron Orchard garnered a cult following for its authentic representation of the people and business of the Texas and American Southwest oil fields. Now available again in a new edition, The Iron Orchard tells the story of a young Texan, Jim McNeely, who is desperate to make a name for himself in the oil fields of Texas. Told from the inside by a man who knew the oil fields intimately, it is a vibrant, brutal story of the men who labored, sweated, lusted, and gambled their money and spirits to pump oil out of the earth. It is the adventure of violent men among other violent men. And it is the story of perseverance and love in the midst of one of America’s most dramatic industries. The Iron Orchard is magnificent and memorable reading.The Iron Orchard was a cowinner of the 1967 Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction along with Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show. The Iron Orchard film premiered at the 2018 Dallas International Film Festival.
Book Synopsis The Mountain Mystery by : Ron Miksha
Download or read book The Mountain Mystery written by Ron Miksha and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years ago, no one could explain mountains. Arguments about their origin were spirited, to say the least. Progressive scientists were ridiculed for their ideas. Most geologists thought the Earth was shrinking. Contracting like a hot ball of iron, shrinking and exposing ridges that became mountains. Others were quite sure the planet was expanding. Growth widened sea basins and raised mountains. There was yet another idea, the theory that the world's crust was broken into big plates that jostled around, drifting until they collided and jarred mountains into existence. That idea was invariably dismissed as pseudo-science. Or "utter damned rot" as one prominent scientist said. But the doubtful theory of plate tectonics prevailed. Mountains, earthquakes, ancient ice ages, even veins of gold and fields of oil are now seen as the offspring of moving tectonic plates. Just half a century ago, most geologists sternly rejected the idea of drifting continents. But a few intrepid champions of plate tectonics dared to differ. The Mountain Mystery tells their story.
Download or read book Salt Creek written by Sam L. Pfiester and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salt Creek, the Saga of a Rocky Mountain Oil Field, traces the 180-year history of one of America's major oil fields. Told through a series of interconnected stories, each written from a different person's perspective, Salt Creek brings to life the dreamers, schemers, scoundrels, visionaries, geologists, and tenacious men and women whose efforts ultimately led to the discovery of hundreds of millions of barrels of oil in Wyoming's sagebrush country.As in Sam L. Pfiester's previous oil history novels (The Golden Lane, Solomon's Temple) all the characters are real people and all the incidents actually happened. Pfiester's rich storytelling, based on years of intensive historical research, highlights hope and opportunity, avarice and exploitation, failure and tenacity, and ultimately, success and community--a true story of the American West.
Book Synopsis Racing Bits by : Jesse Crawford Rickman
Download or read book Racing Bits written by Jesse Crawford Rickman and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Southwest in Children's Books by : Mildred Priscilla Harrington
Download or read book The Southwest in Children's Books written by Mildred Priscilla Harrington and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis South and Southwest Texas by : Marcellus Elliott Foster
Download or read book South and Southwest Texas written by Marcellus Elliott Foster and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor by : Edward Piacentino
Download or read book The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor written by Edward Piacentino and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Southwest flourished between 1830 and 1860, but its brand of humor lives on in the writings of Mark Twain, the novels of William Faulkner, the television series The Beverly Hillbillies, the material of comedian Jeff Foxworthy, and even cyberspace, where nonsoutherners can come up to speed on subjects like hickphonics. The first book on its subject, The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor engages topics ranging from folklore to feminism to the Internet as it pays tribute to a distinctly American comic style that has continued to reinvent itself. The book begins by examining frontier southern humor as manifested in works of Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, Woody Guthrie, Harry Crews, William Price Fox, Fred Chappell, Barry Hannah, Cormac McCarthy, and African American writers Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Ishmael Reed, and Yusef Komunyakaa. It then explores southwestern humor’s legacy in popular culture—including comic strips, comedians, and sitcoms—and on the Internet. Many of the trademark themes of modern and contemporary southern wit appeared in stories that circulated in the antebellum Southwest. Often taking the form of tall tales, those stories have served and continue to serve as rich, reusable material for southern writers and entertainers in the twentieth century and beyond. The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor is an innovative collaboration that delves into jokes about hunting, drinking, boasting, and gambling as it studies, among other things, the styles of comedians Andy Griffith, Dave Gardner, and Justin Wilson. It gives splendid demonstration that through the centuries southern humor has continued to be a powerful tool for disarming hypocrites and opening up sensitive issues for discussion.
