num_pages: 400
description: "Oil," writes Ruth Sheldon Knowles, "is the most hazardous, expensive, heartbreaking gambling game in the world." And, as this book dramatically proves, the men who have been the gamblers of the American oil business have been some of the most colorful and fantastic personalities in our history.
language: English
title: The greatest gamblers: The epic of American oil exploration
titlecomplete: The greatest gamblers: The epic of American oil exploration
genres: History
ratings_count: 23
publisher: University of Oklahoma Press