Oilfield Trash Life and Labor in the Oil Patch |
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| Author:
| Weaver, Bobby D. |
| Series title: | Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-62349-064-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Texas A&M University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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Drawing on oral histories supplemented and confirmed by other research, this tells the colourful stories of the workers who brought oil wealth to Texas. Drillers, shooters, toolies, pipeliners, teamsters, roustabouts, tank builders, roughnecks . . . each of them played a role in the frenzied, hard-driving lifestyle of the boomtowns that sprouted overnight in association with each major oil discovery.
Drawing on oral histories supplemented and confirmed by other research, this tells the colourful stories of the workers who brought oil wealth to Texas. Drillers, shooters, toolies, pipeliners, teamsters, roustabouts, tank builders, roughnecks . . . each of them played a role in the frenzied, hard-driving lifestyle of the boomtowns that sprouted overnight in association with each major oil discovery.