Oilpatch
Oilpatch

Author: Jeff Crowder

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2017-03-23

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1684091853

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It’s a story about a hillbilly family sitting on top of a secret gold mine of oil that only a few people are aware of. The family members and oilmen jockeying for position to own the mineral rights to the vast fortune explodes into a small war, and an unlikely hero materializes to change the course of history. A man’s search for the truth inside a powder keg of confusion and the resulting bloodbath of greedy businessmen refusing to obey the law and heed to the rights of legitimate entrepreneurs seizing opportunities from the sellouts who caved in under the threat of economic instability after the terrorist attacks cemented the uncertainty.

Oilfield Trash
Oilfield Trash

Author: Bobby D. Weaver

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2010-08-24

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1603442057

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"Oilfield Trash is written in a charming, flowing style that any reader will enjoy....In Weaver's capable hands, the gypsy lives of a generation of young men unfold on the rigorous stage of drilling fields...."---Paul Spellman, author of Spindletop Boom Days --

Roughnecks
Roughnecks

Author: Kit Kittle

Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corporation

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9780878334667

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Oil Patch
Oil Patch

Author: Gary Gentry

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2004-08-10

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 1468515217

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“Why doesn’t anybody discover oil in a civilized place?” It’s a lament heard daily in remote locations around the world, collectively called The Oil Patch, where adventuresome expatriates produce oil and gas. It’s tough but rewarding, and once they live in the Oil Patch, they are foreigners wherever they go, even back home. These stories are taken from everyday life of people living in The Oil Patch. People in the Middle East who know the heart-breaking sound of home brew exploding in a closet in the middle of the night, who have waded through a marketplace full of kids shouting the English phrase known all over the world: “Hallo, Meester. Geeve me mahney!”

Anointed with Oil
Anointed with Oil

Author: Darren Dochuk

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1541673948

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A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry's leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and politics -- boosting America's ascent as the preeminent global power, giving shape to modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the Republican Right, and setting the terms for today's political and environmental debates. Ranging from the Civil War to the present, from West Texas to Saudi Arabia to the Alberta Tar Sands, and from oil-patch boomtowns to the White House, this is a sweeping, magisterial book that transforms how we understand our nation's history.

Crisis in the Oil Patch
Crisis in the Oil Patch

Author: Donald Paul Hodel

Publisher: Regnery Publishing

Published: 1994-03-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780895265029

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The decline of the oil industry and its economic, social, and political consequences are thoroughly probed in a study of the profound changes in this industry.

Growing Up in the Oil Patch
Growing Up in the Oil Patch

Author: John Schmidt

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 1989-06-30

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0920474578

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This book chronicles the adventures of a cast of colourful, ambitious people: statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries, and developers, all participants in the growing oil patch!

Mystery in the Oil Patch
Mystery in the Oil Patch

Author: Wanda Jay Campbell

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2022-06-28

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1665724811

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It is August 1939, and free-spirited ten-year-old Melvina Clarke is happy on the family ranch north of Fort Worth. Because of a family crisis, a reluctant Mel must go to the West Texas oil patch for a four-month stay. She has to live in an oil company camp with her aunt Margie, uncle Ray, cousin Polly, and Polly’s dog, Snatcher. While adapting to these new surroundings, Mel deals with homesickness, her meddlesome little cousin, three hecklers at school, and her disinterest in reading. She faces challenges to her independence is challenged when her new friends want her to help organize a club, and then her teacher proposes a class play as a fundraiser to buy books for the town’s new public library. In addition to mishaps at home, church, and school, Mel sees unsettling, ominous lights flashing in an abandoned warehouse near the oil company camp. She must decide whether to trust her new friends with her suspicions or try to solve the mystery by herself. In pursuit of a reason for the lights and other unexplained happenings in the oilfields, Mel faces many obstacles, and one harrowing event forces her to acknowledge her own shortcomings. Full of humor, suspense, and unexpected twists and turns, this novel follows four friends who work together to solve a mystery in the 1930s West Texas oilfields.

Jesse the Oil Patch Kid
Jesse the Oil Patch Kid

Author: Gertie Mayeux

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1477236910

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The son of an oil field worker of Irish descent, Jesse lives in a coastal town in south Louisiana. The culture is predominately French. Shortly after his mother s death, his father loses his job when the oil industry goes into a recession. His father accepts a job in the North Atlantic, leaving Jesse with Uncle Rufus, a disabled World War II veteran. Uncle Rufus is military oriented and unable to show his feelings. Jesse feels he is a left-over kid and befriends an abandoned dock cat. Ole Tom can be aggravating and remains fiercely independent. A life/death crisis develops when Uncle Rufus insists on battling the gulf for shrimp. Jesse rises to the challenge and discovers he is appreciated in his small town school. Jesse is the story of a ten-year-old boy frustrated by circumstances beyond his control. Besides trying to fit into a culture different from his own, he is coping with his mother s death, his father having to leave because of job loss and living with his military minded uncle. Woven into these circumstances is the potential within Jesse, which he discovers in crisis that declared him a SOMEBODY in his NOBODY world.