Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers : : Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields / / Gerald Lynch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Lynch, Gerald,
• MitwirkendeR: Weaver, Bobby,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Introduction --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780292790568; 9783110745351
• DOI: 10.7560/715530
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gerald Lynch.

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.