Roughnecks, drillers, and tool pushers
Subtitle: thirty-three years in the oil fields
By: by Gerald Lynch ; introduction by Bobby Weaver.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Personal narratives of the West series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Lynch, Gerald, 1908-; Petroleum workers -- United States -- Biography.; Petroleum industry and trade -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Description: 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.--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes index.