Harsh country, hard times [electronic resource] : Clayton Wheat Williams and the transformation of the Trans-Pecos / Janet Williams Pollard & Louis Gwin.
Series: Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; no. 13.Publication details: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 250 pISBN:- 1603442839 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1603444793 (e-book)
- 9781603442831
- 9781603444798 (e-book)
- Williams, Clayton
- United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France
- Ranchers -- Texas -- Biography
- Historians -- Texas -- Biography
- Petroleum industry and trade -- Texas -- History
- Statesmen -- Texas -- Biography
- Fort Stockton (Tex.) -- Biography
- Trans-Pecos (Tex. and N.M.) -- History -- 20th century
- Texas -- History -- 20th century
- 976.4/061092 B 22
- F392.P3 P65 2011eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- "Paradise for men and dogs and hell for women and horses" -- Growing up in Fort Stockton -- The suicide club -- French friends and new adventures -- Paris is bombed -- Searching for oil west of the Pecos -- "Dangerous business and dangerous surroundings" -- Drilling the University No. 1-B well -- Risk, failure, and reward -- A public figure -- A love of history.
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