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Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers: Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields

By Gerald Lynch

Book information

Publisher
University of Texas Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780292790568
DOI
10.7560/715530
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
72 MB (75032764 bytes)
Pages
278\279
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 09:10:14

Description

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.

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