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| Author | : John Schmidt |
| Publisher | : Dundurn |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 1989-06-30 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1554881803 |
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Growing Up in the Oil Patch chronicles the adventures and achievements of some of the most colourful, ambitious people of their time: statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries and developers. Participants all in the growing oil patch! The author presents a highly readable, informative and entertaining account of the early years in the development of Canada’s gas and oil industry. Based upon five years of research, interviews, and his fortuitous discovery of a rare, historically important scribbler, John Schmidt traces the paths of two enterprising American-born drillers, "Frosty" Martin and "Tiny" Phillips, whose drive and ingenuity were encouraged by British and Canadian promoters and financiers. Their entrepreneurial spirit took them initially to Leamington, Ontario, and ultimately into the heart of the oil patch in Western Canada.
| Author | : Shirley Ramsey |
| Publisher | : Black Rose Writing |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2016-05-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781612966960 |
Download Oil Patch Home Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A coming-of-age story for the whole family, the novel is written from the viewpoint of a young girl growing up in the post-war central Oklahoma oil fields. For 12-year-old Sharon Miller, her last childhood summer is an eventful one of young love, tragedy and for the first time feeling the pressure of weightier adult issues. The novel addresses early fears and hopes of families when a union organizer comes on board. Struggles with a worker strike and a lost love returned continue throughout the book. In the midst of all the public and personal conflicts and a changing world, the foundation of family becomes stronger than ever.
| Author | : Gertie Mayeux |
| Publisher | : Author House |
| Total Pages | : 35 |
| Release | : 2012-08-22 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 147724039X |
Download Jesse the Oil Patch Kid Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The son of an oil field worker of Irish descent, Jesse lives in a coastal town in south Louisiana. The culture is predominately French. Shortly after his mothers death, his father loses his job when the oil industry goes into a recession. His father accepts a job in the North Atlantic, leaving Jesse with Uncle Rufus, a disabled World War II veteran. Uncle Rufus is military oriented and unable to show his feelings. Jesse feels he is a left-over kid and befriends an abandoned dock cat. Ole Tom can be aggravating and remains fiercely independent. A life/death crisis develops when Uncle Rufus insists on battling the gulf for shrimp. Jesse rises to the challenge and discovers he is appreciated in his small town school. Jesse is the story of a ten-year-old boy frustrated by circumstances beyond his control. Besides trying to fit into a culture different from his own, he is coping with his mothers death, his father having to leave because of job loss and living with his military minded uncle. Woven into these circumstances is the potential within Jesse, which he discovers in crisis that declared him a SOMEBODY in his NOBODY world.
| Author | : Jim Messer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 117 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781436349499 |
Download Growing Up in the Bradford Oil Fields Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Bradford Oil Field is the oldest producing oil field in the world, and from it comes the very best grade of crude oil in the world. This book tells of the first discovery of oil in the USA by the Seneca Indians at Cuba, NY in 1627, and of the first drilled oil well at Titusville, PA in 1859. There are photos of old time drilling rigs, power-houses, and pumping jacks, along with descriptions of how they operated. There is a section devoted to the dangers of nitroglycerin used to shoot the wells, and of one man in particular (my father) who survived that dangerous occupation. Several pages are devoted to the things other people remember when they too grew up in the oil patch. The book up-dates us as to current drilling operations in 2008, "There's Still Oil in Them Thar Hills", and ends with the introduction of a brand new way to refine crude oil that will reduce the cost of refining a gallon of gasoline by fifty-percent or more.
| Author | : John Schmidt |
| Publisher | : Dundurn |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 1989-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0920474578 |
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This book chronicles the adventures of a cast of colourful, ambitious people: statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries, and developers, all participants in the growing oil patch!
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| Release | : 1989 |
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Growing Up in the Oil Patch chronicles the adventures and achievements of some of the most colourful, ambitious people of their time: statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries and developers. Participants all in the growing oil patch!The author presents a highly readable, informative and entertaining account of the early years in the development of Canada’s gas and oil industry. Based upon five years of research, interviews, and his fortuitous discovery of a rare, historically important scribbler, John Schmidt traces the paths of two enterprising American-born drillers, "Frosty" Martin and "Tiny" Phillips, whose drive and ingenuity were encouraged by British and Canadian promoters and financiers. Their entrepreneurial spirit took them initially to Leamington, Ontario, and ultimately into the heart of the oil patch in Western Canada.
| Author | : Richard Rogers |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2018-05-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781717528544 |
Download Growing Up to Be in the Oilfield, a Seventy Year Journey Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A life's journey from a childhood in the deep south, to entry into the Oil & Gas Industry and memoirs of 46 years of working across the world with Oilfield Service Companies . A black and white version
| Author | : Estha Briscoe Stowe |
| Publisher | : TCU Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780875650333 |
Download Oil Field Child Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tells of the lives of early-day oil field families in Texas boomtowns.
| Author | : Loren G Kelly |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 62 |
| Release | : 2019-07-16 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781076515827 |
Download Black Gold, Roughnecks and Oil Town Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Storyteller Loren G. Kelly recounts a poetic historical epic of his wildcatter grandfather, roughneck father and nomad-like oil field Irish Kelly ancestors, traveling to oil boom towns, exploring for black gold and drilling oil well gushers in the oil fields of America's early twentieth century. The author depicts growing up in the oil refinery town of Phillips, Texas, on the high plains of the Texas Panhandle, where a monstrous refinery belched fire from explosions, spewed clouds of pollution and vented poisonous gas over the roofs of oil families' company houses. Loren paints an extraordinary picture of community in the oil patch and within Phillips, Texas, now a ghost town, remaining only in the memories of its former residents, who can never go home. Includes vintage oil field photos and a rare Amelia Earhart photograph.
| Author | : Frank Mauldin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-07-31 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780974866895 |
Download Sojourns Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sojourns is a memoir that begins with stories about growing up in the oil fields of East Texas and Louisiana in the 1940s and ends with the author's proactive environmental work in his career and retirement. The author, Frank Mauldin, lived his early life in poor conditions amid oil-drenched landscapes and, later, in the shadow of an oil refinery. Such conditions would be labeled environmental injustice today and may very well have led to later health problems. Determined to succeed, Mauldin studied engineering and environmental science, earning his master's degree from Tulane University before teaching at Louisiana State University Lafayette. After investigating the health of waterways in South Louisiana and finding that they suffered from heavily polluted discharges, he went to work as a consultant and completed some of the earliest river basin plans under the 'new' federal Clean Water Act.The book reveals Maudlin's evolving environmental conscience and how it impacted his professional career, especially after moving to the state of Oregon in the early 1970s. There he began working for local government in the capital city at a time when Oregon was ramping up environmental efforts under the leadership of visionary Republican governor, Tom McCall.Both entertaining and eye-opening, this posthumously published book tells one man's history and his determined dedication to a strong environmental ethic, despite obstacles and oppositions.
