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    Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers
    Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields

    Gerald Lynch (Author)

    9780292770522

    Paperback / softback, published 1 November 1987

    278 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.454 kg

    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.

    • Introduction by Bobby Weaver
    • 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
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