Texas Oil and Gas documents in postcards the rapid growth of the Texas petroleum industry from its beginnings near Corsicana in the 1890s through the next sever

When it was first published in 1939, oil historian James A. Clark called this book, "the most valuable collection of historical, biographical, and statistical d

The dramatic story of the oil boom that transformed the history of a state, drawn from archives and first-person accounts. As the twentieth century began, oil i