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The Big Rich.(The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes)(Brief article)(Book review)
When a huge oil reserve was discovered at Spindletop, in southeast Texas, in 1901, the state was an inward-looking "hell with cows" built around lumber, cotton, and cattle. In this riveting history, Burrough charts the decades-long rush that made Texas oil into a political and economic powerhouse through the lives of the four great barons: Hugh Roy Cullen, Clint Murchison, Sid Richardson, and H. L. Hunt. Each began his foray into oil as a wildcatter, striking it rich through a ...
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