Black Gold and Red Lights: Oil Blood and Money Flowed Freely in the Boomtown of Borger

by Jerry Sinise

Book Overview

Some towns are born casual and calm-like. Borger had a streetwalker for a midwife and an oil boom for a birth announcement. Oil, blood, and money flowed freely when this Texas Panhandle town burst upon the scene in the 1920s like a stampede of rawhide Texas Longhorns hell-bent for water. Author Jerry Sinise, noted Amarillo author and travel writer, interviewed "survivors" of the High Plains boomtown and dug through musty police records and old...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890153388
• ISBN13: 9780890153383
• Release Date: June 1982
• Publisher: Eakin Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"