Historic Photos of Texas Oil
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.79 (987 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1620453835 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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DickStanley. said Sentimental journey. The author of this thoughtful look at a fabled Texas story has personal connections to the oil patch. Cox introduces a postcard from "the wild and woolly boom town of Ranger." His late maternal grandfather sent it to his grandmother in 1919 while covering the runaway oil boom for a Fort Worth newspaper. Seven years later, Cox's paternal grandfather was a roughneck on a rig in Borger, another of the. oil historia said more credits to the original photos. Great choice of photographs. Excellent addition to the oil history of Texas.Author could/should have listed more information on the origins of some of the photos.Many of the Jack Nolan photographs were missing Jack's captions (written on photographs and his photogrpahic postcards, in most collections). Cropping of those portions of the photographs was not appropriate.give full credit.. "Engaging Texas Oil History" according to pats1Engaging Texas Oil History pats1403 While Mike Cox's book is largely photos, the captions with historical tidbits and the wonderful bibliography provide incentive to learn more about these early years of the Texas oil industry. Whether readers have family and business links to the "ohl bidness" or not, they will recognize how the chain of events that brought much growth, excitement and danger to this state parallel U.S. growth and hi. 0Engaging Texas Oil History While Mike Cox's book is largely photos, the captions with historical tidbits and the wonderful bibliography provide incentive to learn more about these early years of the Texas oil industry. Whether readers have family and business links to the "ohl bidness" or not, they will recognize how the chain of events that brought much growth, excitement and danger to this state parallel U.S. growth and hi. . While Mike Cox's book is largely photos, the captions with historical tidbits and the wonderful bibliography provide incentive to learn more about these early years of the Texas oil industry. Whether readers have family and business links to the "ohl bidness" or not, they will recognize how the chain of events that brought much growth, excitement and danger to this state parallel U.S. growth and hi
Join author and historian Mike Cox in this photographic visit to the heyday of Texas crude as he recounts the stories of key oil-patch discoveries around the state. On January 10, 1901, near Beaumont, Texas, an unremarkable knoll of earth the world would soon call Spindletop shot a geyser of oil a hundred feet into the air, confirming the belief of Pattillo Higgins that black gold lay buried there. Nearly 200 images in vivid black-and-white, with captions and introductions, offer a roughneck-close look at this uniquely American tale of dry holes and gushers, ragtowns and riches, boomtowns, blowouts, and wildcatters gone broke.. In the year