Author: BOATRIGHT, MODY C.
Title: Folklore of the Oil Industry / With illustrations by William D. Wittliff (Second printing)
Description: Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press 1964. Second Edition. Near-fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn. dust-dulled & price-clipped dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description: vii. 220 p. ; 8º. Summary: In its early days the oil industry was a wild and wide-open way of making a living. It developed a stock of folklore about the men who worked in it. the way they worked. and the results of their labors. Folklorist Mody Boatright has been gathering material from the oil-fields for many years. Subject: Creekology. Oil rigs. Stereotypes. Geology / science. Promoters / tricksters / Shooters / Drillers / landowners. Songs / stories / anecdotes / folklore. Genre: Text. illustrated. Weight in Kg appr.:

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