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Author:

Mealer, Bryan, author.

Title:

The kings of big spring : God, oil, and one family's search for the American dream / Bryan Mealer.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Flatiron Books,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

369 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical tables ; 25 cm

Subject:

Mealer, Bryan--Family.
Big Spring (Tex.)--Biography.
Petroleum industry and trade--Texas--Biography.
Texas--Biography.
Autobiographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-369).

Summary:

In 1892, Bryan Mealer's great-grandfather leaves the Georgia mountains and heads west into Texas, looking for wealth and adventure in the raw and open country. But his luck soon runs out. Beset by drought, the family loses their farm just as the dead pastures around them give way to one of the biggest oil booms in American history.

ISBN:

9781250058911
1250058910

OCLC:

(OCoLC)986976617

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