Doctorin' Oil Field Trash - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doctorin' Oil Field Trash write by G. P. Stocker. This book was released on 2008-12. Doctorin' Oil Field Trash available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Oilfield Trash
Oilfield Trash - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oilfield Trash write by Bobby D. Weaver. This book was released on 2010-08-24. Oilfield Trash available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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 --
Oil Field Trash and Other Garbage
Oil Field Trash and Other Garbage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oil Field Trash and Other Garbage write by Greig Grey. This book was released on 2014-01-27. Oil Field Trash and Other Garbage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A wild ride and a beautiful read!" "This collection of writing on work in the oil fields is like nothing you've read yet! The writer is a master of narrative. He takes you not only into the culture and time and place of these oil field years and workers, but into the psyches of the characters as well as the physical and emotional world they inhabit. You won't put it down while you're reading it, and you won't forget it when you're done!" Laura Kasischke-award winning author of seventeen books. "Blowouts are mere complications for investors. Wry grins are concealed as heads are bowed in a moment of remembrance for the dead. A jackpot waits after Red Adair cleans up the mess." I worked on oil drilling rigs for eight years, starting out in the boom year of 1981. 4,500 rigs were boring for gas and oil nationwide and experienced hands were scarce. Training programs were nonexistent and safety meetings were nothing more than a once a week, ten-minute break to gulp down a few bologna sandwiches. If you made it a month without a lost time injury, you were rewarded with a dozen pairs of gloves. My life is boring now, but far from it during the black gold rush back then. The main story is titled "Oil Field Trash" so I figured that I'd beat the critics to the first punch, hence the second half of the book title: "And Other Garbage." The book is written from the perspective of a roughneck, performing the duties of this obscure profession. The stories chronicle the dry holes, the wild wells, and the wilder nights, as well as the profound dangers of the trade. The industry has evolved but oil drilling is still by far the most dangerous dollar in the world. Roughnecks are the front lines of the world's energy industry-soldiers of fortune, hiring on for a hard earned, high risk paycheck. As you are reading this one roughneck will die every five days on average-lives summed up by six lines in their hometown newspaper. Something to ponder the next time you fill up your tank or adjust your thermostat. Unlike oil, men are a renewable resource. So, here they are: first person accounts of drilling for oil and gas in the Michigan basin, as journalists and geologists refer to it. Roughnecks just call it the patch.
The Alamo Defenders
The Alamo Defenders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Alamo Defenders write by Amelia W. Williams. This book was released on 2010-02. The Alamo Defenders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1931, this book is the culmination of almost a decade worth of Alamo research, and the foundation for most later works on the subject of who occupied the Alamo during the siege. Omitting much of the romance, legend and myth associated with the storied fortress, The Alamo Defenders calls forth the facts, letters and primary documents that bring us closer to those who served with Travis. While much new information regarding the siege and subsequent events has come to light since this data was compiled over 75 years ago, it remains a valuable research tool and starting point for Alamo research. Includes brief history of the Republic of Texas, the run-up to the siege and data on 187 Alamo defenders & messengers.
Doctorin' Oil Field Trash: True Tales of Roughnecks and Rougher Women from Spindletop to Saratoga
Doctorin' Oil Field Trash: True Tales of Roughnecks and Rougher Women from Spindletop to Saratoga - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doctorin' Oil Field Trash: True Tales of Roughnecks and Rougher Women from Spindletop to Saratoga write by George Parker Stoker. This book was released on 2012-09-01. Doctorin' Oil Field Trash: True Tales of Roughnecks and Rougher Women from Spindletop to Saratoga available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Would you like to know about the noble men who risked everything to make Texas the oil capital of America? Well find another book, because this one's about gambling, pimps, prostitutes, crooked officials, hard drinking, liquor fueled brawling and the roughnecks at the center of it all...real life in Texas oil boomtowns. In 1901, George Parker Stoker was twenty-three and a newly hatched MD seeking his fortune. He stepped off the train at Beaumont into a world of mud and mayhem. Within a day he was at the Spindletop field and had inherited the only medical practice in town from an old doc who wanted to "go on a drunk" for a few months. Stoker spent the next few years patching up the inmates of this oil patch asylum. He worked at Spindletop, Batson Prairie and Saratoga. This was no tea-sipping engagement. The work was as hard as the men, who risked death in ways that Edgar Allen Poe couldn't have dreamed up. But boy were they paid! All that idle cash made saloons pop up like toadstools, tacked together from pine planks. Roofs leaked and there were no doors...because they never closed. The "Kid Doctor," as Stoker was called because of his youthful appearance, saw it all. He treated them all too, giving each the best care he could in that carnival of contusion and contagion.
