Black Diamonds! Black Gold!
The Saga of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company

Texas, they say, is so rich you can pull money right out of the ground. Through photographs, newspaper articles, company archives, and oral recollections, this title offers readers a glimpse of the life and times of the people and events that shaped the socioeconomic growth of the region.

The latter part of the book offers a tantalizing glimpse of the postWorld War II development of Fort Worth, including the political maneuverings of the last chairman of the company, H. B. Fuqua. Oil money, cattle barons, politicos - the history of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil is a story not only about a company, but also of the people whose dreams and actions moved a fortune from the dusty ground of the prairie into the new bustling frontier economy that created twentieth-century Texas.

In the Beginning: Will Johnson The Mighty Hunter Boys, You Now Own the Mines! There's Oil in the McCleskey! Penn from Pennsylvania From Star Dust to a New Deal I Have Returned! War and Peace Babe That is a Damn Lie! That Airport will be Built! I have had a Few Enemies in My Time Sunset and Evening Star