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Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch Book

Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch
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Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch, When the first gusher blew in at Spindletop, near Beaumont, Texas, in 1901, petroleum began to supplant cotton and cattle as the economic engine of the state and region. Very soon, much of the workforce migrated from the cotton field to the oilfield, foll, Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch
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  • Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch
  • Written by author Bobby D. Weaver
  • Published by Texas A&M University Press, August 24, 2010
  • When the first gusher blew in at Spindletop, near Beaumont, Texas, in 1901, petroleum began to supplant cotton and cattle as the economic engine of the state and region. Very soon, much of the workforce migrated from the cotton field to the oilfield, foll
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Introduction

Chapter 1 The Oil Boom, 1901-1905 1

Chapter 2 The Drillers, 1901-1910 17

Chapter 3 The Other Hands, 1901-1910 32

Chapter 4 Moving on up North, 1910-1922 52

Chapter 5 The Panhandle---Populating Cow Country, 1919-1930 74

Chapter 6 East Texas---Changes in the Patch, 1930-1935 92

Chapter 7 Way Out West, 1923-1940 107

Chapter 8 Change Comes to the Oil Patch, 1941-1960 123

Chapter 9 The Making of an Oilfield Culture, 1901-1960 139

Chapter 10 A Language of Their Own 165

Notes 179

Bibliography 207

Index 221


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