{"product_id":"roughnecks-drillers-and-tool-pushers-thirty-three-years-in-the-oil-fields-paperback-softback-9780292770522","title":"Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers; Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292770522","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRoughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThirty-three Years in the Oil Fields\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGerald Lynch (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292770522\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 1987\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOil, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRoughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction by Bobby Weaver\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrologue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Breaking In\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. From Weevil to Top Hand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. My First Boom: Nigger Creek\/Mexia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. The Bruner Boom in Luling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. The Free State\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. The East Texas Depression\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Fading Depression, Fading Boom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Hard Rock Drilling in Hobbs and Oklahoma City\u003cbr\u003e Leaving East Texas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Cayuga and Mabank, Then on to Illinois and a New World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. West Texas-S-H-K and Big Lake\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. Back to Odessa, Still Drilling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Pushing Tools: Starting, Then Becoming the Loner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. Kermit and New Mexico: The Exodus from Odessa\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14. The Tulk Field\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15. Andrews and the Maguetex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16. Back to New Mexico: Wildcat at Clovis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17. Wildcat at Grandfalls, Then on to Lovington, Sweetwater, and Lovington Again\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18. Winding Up\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530887065880,"sku":"9780292770522","price":22.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/roughnecks-drillers-and-tool-pushers-thirty-three-years-in-the-oil-fields-paperback-softback-9780292770522","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}