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Book Synopsis
A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, told by one of its workers.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction by Bobby Weaver
  • 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

Roughnecks Drillers and Tool Pushers

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      Publisher University of Texas Press
      Published 1 November 1987
      ISBN-13 9780292770522
      978-0292770522
      ISBN-10 0292770529

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, told by one of its workers.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction by Bobby Weaver
      • 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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