Well documented by public records, actual court reports, and newspaper accounts, this book is a true story of greed, ambition and murder in the first degree.

The purpose of this book is to detect and explore discernible economic trends in the development of Texas during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and

January 10, 1901 -a momentous day in history. At 10:30 in the morning the first great American gusher "roared in like a shot from a heavy cannon and spouted oil

A history of the Spindletop oil discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901.

Recounts how Texas oil transformed wealth and power in America through the stories of the state's four most influential oil families, tracing how they rose from