Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers: Thirty-Three Years the Oil Fields (Personal Narratives of the West)

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 insiders 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.