Jo Stiles, Judith Walker Linsley, Ellen Walker Rienstra

Broschiertes Buch

Giant Under the Hill

A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901

Beschreibung

How did a profligate who killed a deputy sheriff before reforming, a mining engineer who went AWOL from the Austrian navy, and three East Texas drillers join forces with other equally colorful characters to drill on Spindletop Hill? This book provides the answers.

Autor

Southeast Texas native ELLEN WALKER RIENSTRA is a violinist and historical consultant with undergraduate and graduate degrees from Lamar University. Rienstra's sister, JUDITH WALKER LINSLEY, also earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Lamar University and is a researcher for the McFaddin-Ward House, a history instructor at Lamar, a newspaper columnist, and editor of The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record. The collaborator on this book, JO ANN STILES, is a retired associate professor of history at Lamar University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Texas State Historical Assn
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 167mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780876112366
• ISBN-10: 087611236X
• Artikelnr.: 23821642