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Pattillo Higgins and the Search for Texas Oil (MONTAGUE HISTORY OF OIL SERIES)

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Texas and wildcatters—they go together. And Pattillo Higgins used to be the granddaddy of all of them. Without him Spindletop, Texas’ first gusher, would never have been drilled, and the history of the modern oil industry might have been far different. Here for the first time is his dramatic, almost mystifying story, based on his personal papers and told by his grandnephew.

It used to be Pattillo Higgins who showed the more famous Captain Anthony Lucas where to drill at Spindletop. He organized the Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company in 1892, and he located oil fields in all places Texas and Louisiana—as many as 100 independent fields, some still unexplored. Even supposing frequently doubted, he has never yet been proven improper on one. In his career he gained and lost several fortunes, opened the first brick plant in southeast Texas, and operated a logging enterprise on the Neches River. He used to be once acquitted in a murder trial, experienced a religious conversion, and married his adopted daughter. But all the way through his life the search for oil used to be his chief preoccupation—one he never abandoned. This is the story of a made up our minds, dedicated individual who took large risks with the intention to find black gold. It firmly gives Pattillo Higgins his rightful place as one of the vital three or four great names in the Texas oil industry.

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