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

Jo Ann Stiles with Ellen Walker Rienstra, Judith Walker Linsley

344 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction business history informative medium-paced
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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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