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Claytie : the roller-coaster life of a Texas Wildcatter
- Title
- Claytie : the roller-coaster life of a Texas Wildcatter / by Mike Cochran.
- Author
- Cochran, Mike.
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2007], ©2007.
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| Text | Request in advance | CT275.W56517 C63 2007 | Off-site | |
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- Description
- 435 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The native son of a distinguished West Texas family and a 1954 graduate of Texas A&M whose career and personal pursuits have ranged from farmer to insurance salesman to wildcatter, pipeline entrepreneur, rancher, banker, real estate mogul, big game hunter, conservationist, philanthropist, front-running gubernatorial candidate, and oil tycoon, Claytie W. Williams Jr. is by all measures one of a kind." "He has repeatedly been on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, yet more than once Claytie has also been on the verge of bankruptcy, in stratospheric debt. This book captures the unabashed dimensions of his fascinating life and personality: his determined work ethic and honesty; his passionate interests and rough-hewn style; his devotion to wife and constant companion Modesta and family; his all-in wildcatter bets and integrity - above all payoff of debts; his patented gaffes in the "wildest, woolliest Texas governor's race ever" and their spotlighted consequences for the state and nation; and running through it all, both unrestrained celebrations and knees-on-the ground repentance." "His many notable successes, his most admirable traits, as well as his most outrageous flaws are all portrayed in this book, often in Claytie's own words or in the extensive comments, revealing anecdotes, and first-person accounts of others, supplemented by family and business documents, as well as contemporary journalistic records." "This popular biography of one of the most original characters in recent Texas history also vividly uncovers a time capsule of the past century of the Lone Star State. Here are exciting, ennobling, heartbreaking, and regretful stories told with candor, insight, and flair."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Note
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9781585446346 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1585446343 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007018437
- OCLC
- ocn126226797
- 126226797
- SCSB-5371152
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries