Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers : Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields /
Lynch, Gerald
Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers : Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields / Gerald Lynch. - 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 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
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292790568
10.7560/715530 doi
Women in literature.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General.
813/.54
Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers : Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields / Gerald Lynch. - 1 online resource
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292790568
10.7560/715530 doi
Women in literature.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General.
813/.54