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Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers: Thirty-Three Years in the Oil Fields (Personal Narratives of the West)
Roughnecks Drillers and Tool Pushers ThirtyThree Years in the Oil Fields - Personal Narratives of the West Author:Gerald Lynch 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... more », 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.« less