Pattillo Higgins and the search for Texas oil

Texas and wildcatters--they go together. And Pattillo Higgins was the granddaddy of them all. Without him Spindletop, Texas' first gusher, would never have been drilled, and the history of the modern oil industry might have been far different. Here for the first time is his dramatic, almost mystifying story, based on his personal papers and told by his grandnephew.

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Chapter 1 Ghosts	p. 3
Chapter 2 Logging and the Lord	p. 19
Chapter 3 The Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company	p. 33
Chapter 4 Down and Up and Out	p. 51
Chapter 5 Spindletop	p. 65
Chapter 6 Prospecting	p. 83
Chapter 7 Humble, Hockley, and Goose Creek	p. 99
Chapter 8 Pattillo, the Apostle of Oil	p. 119
Chapter 9 The Complete Oilman	p. 133
Epilogue	p. 155
Appendixes	p. 157
A Note on Sources	p. 165
Index	p. 169

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