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A saga of wealth : the rise of the Texas oilmen
- Title
- A saga of wealth : the rise of the Texas oilmen / by James Presley.
- Author
- Presley, James, 1930-
- Publication
- New York : Putnam, 1978.
- ©1978
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Details
- Description
- 464 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Entertaining, timely, and richly detailed, A Saga of Wealth is both an absorbing chronicle of the men who forged the energy frontier, and a critical evaluation of their powerful legacies" (from book jacket).
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [431]-455.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Being a conversation between Fain Gillock, an old-time oilman, and Mody Boatright, a university professor -- Introduction -- I. Outsiders, Keep Out! -- II. Spindletop - Where It All Began -- III. The Scandal of the Senator and the Standard Oil -- IV. Mud 'n' Blood in Roaring Ranger -- V. Oil for the Lamps for Learning -- VI. East Texas - The Granddaddy of Them All -- VII. The Hot Oil War -- VIII. Lone Star Sheikhs -- IX. Lone Star Sheikhs (Cont'd) -- X. Of Ethnics and Women -- XI. On the Trail of a Dream -- XII. Million-Dollar Ideas -- XIII. Politics Among the Petro-Rich -- XIV. What Did They Do with It? -- XV. A Declining Giant -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0399118527
- 9780399118524
- LCCN
- 78000136
- OCLC
- ocm03604274
- 3604274
- SCSB-107531
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library