Roughnecks, drillers, and tool pushers :: thirty-three years in the oil fields /

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 iniquit...

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1. Verfasser: Lynch, Gerald, 1908- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1987.
Ausgabe:First edition.
Schriftenreihe:Personal narratives of the West series.
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Zusammenfassung: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.--Amazon.com.
Beschreibung:Includes index.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN:9780292786349
0292786344

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