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Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers

Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields

Häftad, Engelska, 1987

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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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Utgivningsdatum1987-11-01
Mått152 x 229 x 2 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePersonal Narratives of the West
Antal sidor278
FörlagUniversity of Texas Press
ISBN9780292770522

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