Title: Undaunted Spirit
Description: Joshua and Luceila McNeil's  18 year old daughter Jean,  makes an Algeresque rise from poverty to wealth .Raped by a low life crew boss, she sets out to reclaim the silver spoon her mother had cast aside  when she left her parents in Louisiana to come to this rock laden farm in Texas with  Joshua to discover oil.  Black Gold,  J ean learns there is two ways to make it up the corporate ladder in banking and sh e uses both , eventually becoming a bank president.
Places: Central Tx;  New Orleans, La.  Ponte Vedra, Fl
People: J oshua and Luceila McNeil; Jim, bank President; Warren Anderson, husband; Marge, grandmother; sisters & brothers
Time periods: 1936 thru 1995