| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 262 pages) : illustrations |
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Personal narratives of the West series |
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Personal narratives of the West series
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| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Lynch, Gerald, 1908-
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Lynch, Gerald, 1908- |
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Petroleum workers -- United States -- Biography
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Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History -- Sources
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Petroleum industry and trade
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Petroleum workers
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780292786349 |
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0292786344 |
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