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The great Texas oil heist / by Robert Cargill.
Lippincott Library HD9567.T4 C37 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cargill, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oil fields--Production methods--Texas--History--20th century.
- Oil fields.
- Oil well drilling--Texas--History--20th century.
- Oil well drilling.
- Governmental investigations--Texas--History--20th century.
- Governmental investigations.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Texas--History--20th century.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Oil fields--Production methods.
- History.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Nacogdoches, Texas : Stephen F. Austin State University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Here then, for the first time, I reveal the story of how a few dozen oilmen stole up to 20 million barrels from the East Texas Oil Field"..."the circumstances that made it inevitable, who did what to whom, and how the matter eventually reached its conclusion"..."The slant-hole story is a significant piece of Texas history, and it must be told before no one is left to tell it." -- taken from the Introduction.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. In the Beginning
- 2. The Age of Texas Oil Begins
- 3. Spindletop to East Texas
- 4. The East Texas Oil Boom
- 5. Huntington Beach
- 6. Regulation in East Texas
- 7. The First Deviated Wells in East Texas
- 8. Murray to the Railroad Commission
- 9. The Boy Scout Well
- 10. The Quiet Interim
- 11. The Lawyers
- 12. The End of a Decade
- 13. 1961, A Bad Year
- 14. January - April 1962
- 15. The Rangers
- 16. Late April - Early May 1962
- 17. May-June 1962
- 18. The Six-Million-Dollar Swindle
- 19. July-August 1962
- 20. The Hearings
- 21. The Salt-Water Company
- 22. Between Hearings
- 23. The Final Hearing and Indictments
- 24. 1963
- 25. Humble v. Long
- 26. Moore on Trial
- 27. The Murphy Trial
- 28. Murray Ousted
- 29. Continental v. Amtex
- 30. Cargill's Stone Lease
- 31. The Six-Million-Dollar Swindle, II
- 32. If You Ain't Indicted, You Ain't Invited!
- 33. Turk
- 34. Ritter's Recollections
- 35. Some Things Never Change.
- Notes:
- Signed by the author Robert Cargill.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781622884025
- 1622884027
- OCLC:
- 1254513602
- Publisher Number:
- 99987982036
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