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DescriptionThe discovery of the Black Giant in 1930 was the largest oil strike inthe U.S. at that time, and its gushers changed the face of the oilindustry. Oilmen, promoters, oil patch workers, and the nation’sunemployed streamed into the tiny hamlets of East Texas for their share,but they faced wars between “big oil” and independent oilmen, bootleg or“hot oil,” martial law, and legalized price fixing. Yet the Black Giantturned out to be the salvation of the drought-stricken farmers, helpedin the fight against Germany and Japan, and made lots of folks “Texasrich.”In “The Black Giant,” the characters, times and oil industryskullduggery are recalled and explained in dozens of sidebars full ofhumorous facts and trivia. The author, law professor at WashingtonCollege of Law, The American University, practiced oil and gas law formore than 35 years and focused on oil and gas matters during the Araboil embargo for the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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