Oilfield Trash, Volume 22: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch by Bobby D. Weaver

Oilfield Trash, Volume 22: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch

Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History

Bobby D. Weaver

248 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction business history politics informative medium-paced
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When the first gusher blew in at Spindletop, near Beaumont, Texas, in 1901, petroleum began to supplant cotton and cattle as the economic engine of the state and region. Very soon, much of the workforce migrated from the cotton field to the oilfie...

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