Giant Under the Hill: A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901

by Ellen Walker Rienstra, Judith Walker Linsley, Jo Ann Stiles

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876111827
• ISBN13: 9780876111826
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"