Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901 by Ellen Walker Rienstra, Judith Walker Linsley, Jo Stiles

Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901

Ellen Walker Rienstra, Judith Walker Linsley, Jo Stiles

304 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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How did a profligate who killed a deputy sheriff before reforming, a mining engineer who went AWOL from the Austrian navy, and three East Texas drillers join forces with other equally colorful characters to drill on Spindletop Hill? The answers ar...

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