Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers: Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields (Personal Narratives of the West)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292770529 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"workingmans narrative of oil field activities" according to A Customer. This is the only book I can think of that is written from the point of view of a working man. Mr. Lynch worked on drilling rigs from the early days until the eighties. He has a lot of love for his life in the oil field. I loaned my copy of the book to a man who had also worked in the oil field and he was fasinated with its reality. The book taught me a lot about how oil is found. I live in an oil field but did not know much about the nuts and bolts of the drilling process. I have seen industries and ways of life pass away without a word being written about how the work was performed and. Honest straightforward autobiography Great read for those interested in oilfield history. This book describes a period of history that we hear about but rarely understand. This First-hand account of oilfield work is exteremely relevant even in the oil patch today. If you want to understand the future of the industry then learn about the past. One mans life experience and his understanding of the problems of his day can enlighten all of us and improve our future.. Roughnecks, Drillers and Toolpushers This book is a "must-read" for families connected to the oil industry. It was most interesting and factual about drilling operations in the early days of Texas "wildcatters."
No one else has written a working-class history of the oil fields as colorful and articulate as this one.. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how these changes affected him and his fellow oil-field workers. 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. Oil, the black gold of Texas, has give