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
equally colorful characters to drill on Spindletop hill? Giant
Under the Hill is a scholarly work firmly rooted in the narrative
tradition, a great story intriguingly told by three Beaumont
historians: Jo Ann Stiles, Ellen Rienstra, and Judith Linsley.
Using material collected over decades, much of it never before
published, they bring to life the efforts of Pattillo Higgins,
Anthony Lucas, Al and Curt Hamill, and Peck Byrd to master the
Spindletop salt dome that culminated in the discovery of the great
Lucas gusher. Their find subsequently transformed not only the
state of Texas but the entire oil industry. Giant Under the Hill is
the definitive story of one of the most significant and colorful
moments in Texas history.
The authors delved deeply into available records and found
treasures at every turn. As news of their work spread, people came
forward from all over the country with even more photographs and
documents.
This exhaustively researched book focuses on the Lucas gusher in
Beaumont in 1901, as well as the events leading up to it and the
immediate aftermath. It's all here -- the challenge and frustration
of the search, the excitement of the discovery, the euphoric chaos
of the boom, and the genesis of the giant companies. After the
gusher came in, life would never be the same.
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