texas_ex2000
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The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
Have any of y'all read this? I'm about half way through, and it's hilarious, captivating, fascinating. Burrogh writes with the perfect amount of restrained style, but the story/characters are what really make this great.
It's about HL Hunt, Clint Murchinson, Roy Cullen, and Sid Richardson and their families. These guys were f&$@!'n nuts (both bad and good nuts).
If the Revolution was about the birth of Texas, and the cattle drives were the birth of the Texas Soul, than Spindletop was the birth of the modern (not quiet contemporary) Texas Ethos.
Required reading for any Houstonian and Dallasite.
Have any of y'all read this? I'm about half way through, and it's hilarious, captivating, fascinating. Burrogh writes with the perfect amount of restrained style, but the story/characters are what really make this great.
It's about HL Hunt, Clint Murchinson, Roy Cullen, and Sid Richardson and their families. These guys were f&$@!'n nuts (both bad and good nuts).
If the Revolution was about the birth of Texas, and the cattle drives were the birth of the Texas Soul, than Spindletop was the birth of the modern (not quiet contemporary) Texas Ethos.
Required reading for any Houstonian and Dallasite.
