The Black Giant: A History of the East Texas Oil Field and Oil Industry Skulduggery & Trivia Inc A compelling and intriguing volume

A compelling and intriguing volume

ISBN10: 190363055X

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The Black Giant: A History of the East Texas Oil Field and Oil Industry Skulduggery & Trivia Inc A compelling and intriguing volumeThe discovery of the Black Giant in 1930 was the largest oil strike in the U. S. at that time, and its gushers changed the face of the oil industry. Oilmen, promoters, oil patch workers, and the nation's unemployed streamed into the tiny hamlets of East Texas for their share, but they faced wars between "big oil" and independent oilmen, bootleg or "hot oil," martial law, and legalized price fixing. Yet the Black Giant turned out to be the salvation of