Gerald Lynch

Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers

Thirty-Three Years in the Oil Fields

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, told by one of its workers.

Produktdetails

• University of Texas Press
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1987
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 23mm x 15mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780292770522
• ISBN-10: 0292770529
• Artikelnr.: 26488697

Autorenporträt

By Gerald Lynch

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Bobby Weaver
Prologue
1. Breaking In
2. From Weevil to Top Hand
3. My First Boom: Nigger Creek/Mexia
4. The Bruner Boom in Luling
5. The Free State
6. The East Texas Depression
7. Fading Depression, Fading Boom
8. Hard Rock Drilling in Hobbs and Oklahoma City; Leaving East Texas
9. Cayuga and Mabank, Then on to Illinois and a New World
10. West Texas—S-H-K and Big Lake
11. Back to Odessa, Still Drilling
12. Pushing Tools: Starting, Then Becoming the Loner
13. Kermit and New Mexico: The Exodus from Odessa
14. The Tulk Field
15. Andrews and the Maguetex
16. Back to New Mexico: Wildcat at Clovis
17. Wildcat at Grandfalls, Then on to Lovington, Sweetwater, and Lovington Again
18. Winding Up
Epilogue
Glossary
Index