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 they do it? 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087611236X
• ISBN13: 9780876112366
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.0"