Harsh Country, Hard Times Clayton Wheat Williams and the Transfsormation of the Trans-Pecos / [Recurso electrónico] :
Janet Williams Pollard and Louis Gwin.
- 1st ed.
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; no. 13 .
- Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; no. 13. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index.
Prologue -- Paradise for men and dogs and hell for women and horses -- Growing up in Fort Stockton -- The suicide club -- French friends and new adventures -- Paris is bombed -- Searching for oil west of the Pecos -- "Dangerous business and dangerous surroundings" -- Drilling the University No. 1-B well -- Risk, failure, and reward -- A public figure -- A love of history.
Libro Electrónico
9781603444798 1603444793
Williams, Clayton.
United States. Army --Officers--Biography.
Statesmen--Texas--Biography. Petroleum industry and trade--History.--Texas Historians--Texas--Biography. Ranchers--Texas--Biography. World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--France.
Texas--History--20th century. Trans-Pecos (Tex. and N.M.)--History--20th century. Fort Stockton (Tex.)--Biography.