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Author : Sam Krasner
Publisher : Sunbelt Eakin
ISBN 13 : 9781571688293
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (882 download)
Download or read book The Oil Patch And Oil Man written by Sam Krasner and published by Sunbelt Eakin. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice Havard
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452088128
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book One Man's Texas written by Janice Havard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Man's Texas is a rugged historical fiction novel about Jack Moore set in 1919 in the West Texas oil boomtown of Rola. A family saga, Jack and Liz Moore struggle to rear four children, 7-16, living out on the family cotton farm and then moving into town for Jack to become Rola's first marshal. When a wildcatter strikes oil on their once-worthless, red gumbo cotton field, the Moores gradually evolve from disbelief to a grasp of the reality of striking oil!The sudden disappearance of one son causes great family agony.Jack has the wildcatter, Buz, and their oldest son, Buddy, manage his business. Liz's passion for learning is realized through university scholarships honoring her teacher and friend, Martha Baker. Their children mature while successfully pursuing their varied interests.
Author : Michael Patrick F. Smith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984881523
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Good Hand written by Michael Patrick F. Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A book that should be read . . . Smith brings an alchemic talent to describing physical labor.” —The New York Times Book Review “Beautiful, funny, and harrowing.” – Sarah Smarsh, The Atlantic “Remarkable . . . this is the book that Hillbilly Elegy should have been.” —Kirkus Reviews A vivid window into the world of working class men set during the Bakken fracking boom in North Dakota Like thousands of restless men left unmoored in the wake of the 2008 economic crash, Michael Patrick Smith arrived in the fracking boomtown of Williston, North Dakota five years later homeless, unemployed, and desperate for a job. Renting a mattress on a dirty flophouse floor, he slept boot to beard with migrant men who came from all across America and as far away as Jamaica, Africa and the Philippines. They ate together, drank together, argued like crows and searched for jobs they couldn't get back home. Smith's goal was to find the hardest work he could do--to find out if he could do it. He hired on in the oil patch where he toiled fourteen hour shifts from summer's 100 degree dog days to deep into winter's bracing whiteouts, all the while wrestling with the demons of a turbulent past, his broken relationships with women, and the haunted memories of a family riven by violence. The Good Hand is a saga of fear, danger, exhaustion, suffering, loneliness, and grit that explores the struggles of America's marginalized boomtown workers—the rough-hewn, castoff, seemingly disposable men who do an indispensable job that few would exalt: oil field hands who, in the age of climate change, put the gas in our tanks and the food in our homes. Smith, who had pursued theater and played guitar in New York, observes this world with a critical eye; yet he comes to love his coworkers, forming close bonds with Huck, a goofy giant of a young man whose lead foot and quick fists get him into trouble with the law, and The Wildebeest, a foul-mouthed, dip-spitting truck driver who torments him but also trains him up, and helps Smith "make a hand." The Good Hand is ultimately a book about transformation--a classic American story of one man's attempt to burn himself clean through hard work, to reconcile himself to himself, to find community, and to become whole.
Author : Paul F. Lambert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806164809
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Oil Fields written by Paul F. Lambert and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the oil-boom days of the early twentieth century, a few lucky or shrewd individuals made millions of dollars virtually overnight. It is a familiar theme in the romantic mythology that sprang up about the era. But the people who produced those millions are the real story, told in these word-for-word recollections of early-day workers in the "oil patch." In vivid, often poignant detail these men and women recall the grueling toil, primitive living and working conditions, and ever-present danger in a time when life was cheap and oil was gold. In the late 1930s employees of the Federal Writers Project, a branch of the New Deal Workers Progress Administration, recorded the voices of these pioneers as they offered their memories, sometimes wryly humorous and sometimes bitter, of the turmoil that was the daily lot of the oilfielders. We meet colorful, tough-talking "Manila Kate," who took over her husband's drilling outfit after he died in an explosion. A welder vividly recalls the death of his closest pal, a skilled hand who loved to take chances. In an oil-field shantytown the support of good-hearted neighbors assuages the pain of a bereaved and impoverished family. A "shooter" recalls the deadly danger of the "soup wagon" the buckboard that delivered the nitroglycerin to the well--or blew up on the way. While many of the individuals witnessed bizarre accidents that became almost routine in the early oil fields, their personal stories also show how uncertain job security and wages could be, even before the Depression, when dry holes and plummeting oil prices left thousands of workers broke and homeless. Many of the interviewers provide valuable technical details about early oilfield operations. Yet it is the stories of the people, the workers themselves, that endure. The early oil industry was built upon their toil, their pain, and their courage, all of which are evident in every word recorded here.
Author : William Murchison, Sr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991637133
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Tales from the Oil Patch written by William Murchison, Sr. and published by . This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Darren Dochuk
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1541673948
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Anointed with Oil written by Darren Dochuk and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry's leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and politics -- boosting America's ascent as the preeminent global power, giving shape to modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the Republican Right, and setting the terms for today's political and environmental debates. Ranging from the Civil War to the present, from West Texas to Saudi Arabia to the Alberta Tar Sands, and from oil-patch boomtowns to the White House, this is a sweeping, magisterial book that transforms how we understand our nation's history.
Author : Sheena B. Stief
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806169982
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Boom or Bust written by Sheena B. Stief and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vast number of studies have documented the economic and geological effects of oil production, but the impact of boom-and-bust cycles on individuals and communities has received less attention. Boom or Bust remedies this gap by highlighting the personal experiences of those directly affected in an economy dominated by oil and natural gas production. The Permian Basin is one of the largest oil-producing regions in the United States. People who live there have benefited from explosive growth, only to see opportunities vanish with sudden industry downturns. In 2016, the National Endowment for the Humanities funded a grant for the study and collection of energy narratives in this economically volatile region. Boom or Bust derives from that community initiative and offers a unique contribution to the developing field of energy humanities. The oil-field industry may seem to be all about numbers, but as Boom or Bust demonstrates, residents of oil-and-gas country, whether they work in the oil field or not, are at the mercy of an ever-shifting economy. When the price of oil rises, companies move in and newcomers flood the area, expanding the employment force. And as the population booms, so does the infrastructure of cities. When prices drop, though, families must make difficult choices: whether to stay put or follow the oil to another location. With the ensuing declines in population, small businesses close their doors and unemployment levels rise. Despite the inevitable declines and despite the increase in alternative energy resources, many West Texans feel a sense of pride that borders on patriotism. Boom or Bust reveals the full complexity of boomtown culture.
Author : Bobby D. Weaver
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603442057
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
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 --
Author : Gerald Lynch
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786344
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers written by Gerald Lynch and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, as told by one of its workers. Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire—and did—for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared. In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider’s view of the oil industry, describing life in various oil fields in and around Texas. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how these changes affected him and his fellow oil-field workers. No one else has written a working-class history of the oil fields as colorful and articulate as this one.
Author : Robert Stuart Mclean
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1426969708
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Oilman written by Robert Stuart Mclean and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Billy Cochrane from the day he quit school in grade 11 to find work in the Leduc oil discovery, to eventually fight, claw, drink and above all, work his way to becoming a colossus in the industry.
Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806146966
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Oil Man written by Michael Wallis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created. Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. In Oil Man, Michael Wallis, a best-selling historian of the West, presents Phillips against a pageant of luminaries and outlaws that includes Will Rogers, Harry Truman, Edna Ferber, J. Paul Getty, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Spanning the final days of America's frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world wars, Oil Man is a bold, colorful biography of an original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988, the book captures the life and times of an American hero.
Author : Donald Paul Hodel
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780895265029
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Crisis in the Oil Patch written by Donald Paul Hodel and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decline of the oil industry and its economic, social, and political consequences are thoroughly probed in a study of the profound changes in this industry.
Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143116827
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
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.
Author : W. O. Durham
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780533154357
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (543 download)
Download or read book From Kittyhawk to the Moon written by W. O. Durham and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1919, Owen Durham was smack in the middle of the oil boom, at a time when green money and amber booze flowed as freely as the thousands of barrels of black gold that surged from the ground each day. His richly woven text encapsulates the awesome feeling of possibilty that dominated American life in the early twentieth century, when roughnecks from across the country swarmed to the oil towns to claim their share of the emeriging wealth and a new subculture was born, with its own laws, customs, and history.
Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806146974
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Oil Man written by Michael Wallis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created. Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. In Oil Man, Michael Wallis, a best-selling historian of the West, presents Phillips against a pageant of luminaries and outlaws that includes Will Rogers, Harry Truman, Edna Ferber, J. Paul Getty, and Pretty Boy Floyd. Spanning the final days of America's frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world wars, Oil Man is a bold, colorful biography of an original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988, the book captures the life and times of an American hero.
Author : L. E. Buzarde
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781401058326
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (583 download)
Download or read book Oil Patch written by L. E. Buzarde and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OIL PATCH is set in that exciting and robust business arena where a unique breed of men routinely risk all they own to compete in the search for black gold. These are the Wildcatters, men living for that next gamble, praying for that next discovery, and eager to bet all their winnings on the next roll of the dice. This highly entertaining and intriguing look into the inner workings of a little-understood industry that dramatically impacts us all, chronicles the life and loves of Jack Manning, who rises from the poverty of his youth to become one of the most successful of these men. The reader travels from the rough and tumble oilfields of the blue-collar roughnecks, to the boardrooms and bedrooms of the power brokers who control the world's most precious commodity. Oil. As the book opens, the reader meets Manning, who at 69 years of age is the multibillionaire founder and Chairman of Manning Oil & Gas, the largest independent oil and gas company in the world. In the first few pages, Jack is advised by Dr. Hans Kasser in Zurich that he is terminally ill. To Kasser's astonishment, Jack declines to begin the treatments which could prolong his life, but which would be disabling in the near term. What Kasser does not know is that the continued existence of Manning Oil & Gas is in jeopardy, and it is Jack alone who can direct Operation Sharkfin in a last desperate effort to save the company. Through an alternating sequence of flashbacks from TODAY to YESTERDAY, the novel follows both Jack's past and his present until at last the two converge. As to Jack's past, YESTERDAY chronicles his life from August of 1947, when he seeks to break the chains of poverty that have bound his family for generations, and leaves Mississippi as an eighteen year old graduate of Greenwood high school. He hitchhikes to Lubbock, Texas, where he becomes Texas Tech's first pay-by-the-month student, and gets a job working nights and weekends to support his studies. After graduation from Tech, Jack opens an office as a consultant petroleum engineer in Midland, Texas, the flagship community of the West Texas Oil Patch. In this segment of the book, the reader first begins to understand the exciting extremes of potential risk to possible reward that the career journeymen of the Oil Patch find addictively compelling. The reader follows Jack to Dallas, as that city becomes his home and the location of the corporate offices of Manning Oil & Gas. Big D! Was there ever another city whose sobriquet so perfectly described its personality? It is from Dallas that Jack travels to Indonesia, which ultimately becomes the springboard by which Manning Oil & Gas' feet are firmly set upon the path to destiny's door. The reader meets GAIL STERLING, a lovably hedonistic and emotionally unfettered individual who is young Jack's lover and close friend for that one special summer. CATLINE GALLAGHER evolves from his role as Jack's first Oil Patch boss and mentor, to being Jack's partner and closest friend. The reader will not easily forget him. And then there is MEG O'BRIEN. The star-crossed love that Meg and Jack share transformed what had been intended to be simply a business mystery into a poignant love story as well. Two other key players in the saga of Jack Manning are Jack's beautiful and talented daughter, TARA, and the formidable young Oil Patch entrepreneur, MIKE COLLINS. However, the one character who, after Jack, is most integral to the theme of the book is OSCAR CLANTON, the novel's antagonist and Jack's lifetime rival and bitter enemy. As to TODAY, Manning Oil & Gas is in dire trouble. Jack has belatedly discovered that powerful forces have long been at work, seeking to destroy everything it has taken him a lifetime to build. The successful conclusion of Operation Sharkfin is vital to the continued existence of Manning Oil & Gas. Slowly, piece-by-piece as the novel unfolds, the reader learns
Author : Walter Dechant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Oilman written by Walter Dechant and published by . This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a man. Not a great man by historical standards, but a greatman. Not a man that faced challenges and trauma that would traditionally grace thepages of an epic drama, but a man that persevered through every need that his liferequired. A man with quiet honor that always moved forward with family and faith inmind, accumulating along the way a wealth of stories, of memories, and of vastinfluence that would have otherwise gone unknown, except for those able to experienceknowing him. This is the chronicle of rural Ellis County, Kansas 2 nd generation German-Russian, Catholic peoples living through the 'Dirty 30s', 'The Great War', the 'Ike' years,turbulent 60s & 70s into the 21 st century told through the eyes of one such person andhis family.
