Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers: Thirty-Three Years in the Oil Fields

Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire--and did, for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared.

In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider's view of the oil industry, describing life in various oil fields in and around Texas. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how these changes affected him and his fellow oil-field workers. No one else has written a working-class history of the oil fields as colorful and articulate as this one.

Author: Gerald Lynch
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 01/01/1991
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.05w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780292770522