TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lynch,Gerald
AU  - Weaver,Bobby
TI  - Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers: Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields 
SN  - 9780292790568
U1  - 813/.54 20
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/715530
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292790568
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292790568/original
ER  -