The Greatest Gamblers
Subtitle: The Epic of American Oil Exploration
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
Published: August 1980
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780806116549
Subjects: Petroleum & oil industries; History; History - General History; History: American; USA; General
First sentence: ONE SATURDAY AFTERNOON in August, 1859, a dark, bearded man in a stovepipe hat and frock coat sat on a log beside a creek in a Pennsylvania valley, listening moodily to the rhythmic sound of an iron tool pounding a hole through rock.