Download or read book Drilling Ahead written by Alan Cockrell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of oil in Tinsley, Mississippi, in 1939 captivated the South and has deeply affected the region ever since. At the end of 1940, over 133 wells were flowing, and speculators were drilling holes and staking claims all along the Gulf Coast and its immediate environs. Consequently, the region's economy, ecosystems, and politics have been shaped by black gold since the end of World War II. Alan Cockrell, a petroleum geologist, provides an insider's account of the science of oil hunting, the political processes that help or hinder it, and the advances in technology that make it all possible. This book documents the ways in which wars, foreign competition, governmental regulation, and new business models affect oil exploration, and what that means to the South's people. Just as significantly, Cockrell provides compelling commentary on the people who hunt for petroleum, from pioneering wildcatters such as Chesley Pruet to savvy geologists focusing on science and technology Drilling Ahead documents the triumphs and travails of oil hunters. Mavericks, underworld characters, professors, lawyers, and environmentalists have all played major roles in the South's oil production. A fascinating study of corporations, economies, and people, Drilling Ahead is a compelling, opinionated narrative as well as an exhaustively researched history. Published for the Mississippi Geological Society

Download or read book Oil in the Deep South written by Dudley J. Hughes and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prevented the oil and gas from crossing into adjoining states. This is the first book to document the history of the petroleum business in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. It records a statistical and chronological summary and highlights the many people and companies involved in the oil industry during its early days in this region. After too many discouraging years of exploration, success finally came in 1939. The big payoff was the discovery of the Tinsley Oil Field.

Download or read book Oil in the Deep South written by Dudley J. Hughes and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prevented the oil and gas from crossing into adjoining states. This is the first book to document the history of the petroleum business in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. It records a statistical and chronological summary and highlights the many people and companies involved in the oil industry during its early days in this region. After too many discouraging years of exploration, success finally came in 1939. The big payoff was the discovery of the Tinsley Oil Field.

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Download or read book Deep South written by Caldwell Delaney and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Deep South written by William Bryant Logan and published by Stewart, Tabori, & Chang. This book was released on 1989 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes hundreds of historic towns, buildings, and natural wonders of the Gulf States--Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.

Download or read book Blowing Down the Road written by Tony Tingle and published by Blowing Down the Road. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Blowing Down The Road' documents one person's lifelong ambition to experience the sights, sounds, music, politics and people of America's Deep South and South West and how it inspired a coast-to-coast journey through 21 States and three time zones. The American landscape and its people are the central characters of the book, which concludes with an assessment of the state of the nation under its first black President and a timely reflection on the changing face of America under Donald J. Trump.

Download or read book Crude Justice written by Stuart H. Smith and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day in the small Mississippi town of Laurel, a 26-year-old expectant mom named Karen Street sat down at the edge of her bathtub—and felt her hip split in two. The episode was so bizarre it wasn't until later, after she saw the doctor, that she realized her bone disease was almost certainly linked to her father-in-law's business. Winston Street ran a machine shop that drilled the gunk out of pipes used by Chevron, Shell and other giants of the oil industry—creating a white powder that covered Karen Street's husband's overalls every night, which then landed in their vegetable garden...and was highly radioactive. Winston Street didn't know the dust was poisonous, nor did his workers or his family. But someone did know. Indeed, there was evidence that America's Big Oil companies were aware for decades that they were pulling up radium from under the earth, poisoning yards like Street's while dumping radioactive water in unlined pits across the South. Now, to prove that and win justice for his blue-collar clients, an untested young lawyer named Stuart H. Smith and his eccentric team would have to get the better of America's best-known radiation attorney and the global clout of Chevron inside a Mississippi courtroom. In a gripping tale that reads as if torn from the pages of a John Grisham novel, Crude Justice tells how the Little Guy can take on the behemoth of Big Oil and win…with the help of a good attorney. Recounting more than two decades as a top environmental lawyer in the toxic oil patch of the American South, Smith tells the story of how he upped the ante again and again—getting the best of Chevron, then taking on the world's most powerful corporation, ExxonMobil, with $1 billion on the line, and finally ferreting out the elusive truth behind BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Smith finally builds upon the courtroom drama of his past and the environmental threats of the present—from fracking to the Keystone XL pipeline—to issue a resounding call for America to break its crippling addiction to fossil fuels.

Download or read book The American South written by William James Cooper (Jr.) and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The American South, William J. Cooper, Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill demonstrate their belief that it is impossible to divorce the history of the south from the history of the United States. Each volume includes a substantial biographical essay--completely updated for this edition--which provides the reader with a guide to literature on the history of the South. Coverage now includes the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, up-to-date analysis of the persistent racial divisions in the region, and the South's unanticipated role in the 2008 presidential primaries.

Download or read book Living in the Good Old Days Down in the Deep South written by Russell Collins and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Deep South written by Paul Theroux and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Acclaimed and beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to his own country - America - for the first time in Deep South For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, and elsewhere - and brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, Paul Theroux writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers - the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi - and above all, the lives of the people he meets. The South is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is the ruined grandeur of numberless ghostly towns, long abandoned by the industries that built them. There are the state gun shows, populated by a close-knit and subtly forlorn tribe of peoples. In the depths of his native country, Theroux discovers a land more profoundly foreign than anything he has previously experienced.

Download or read book Rythm Oil written by Stanley Booth and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1993 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booth travels to the funeral of master bluesman John Hurt with slide-guitar virtuoso Furry Lewis, a man steeped in Southern history. Here is Memphis, a small town still living through the traumas of the Civil War and yellow fever, inspiring memories of riverboats, medicine shows, murder, Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Otis Redding, the Bar-Kays, and James Brown.

Download or read book DEEP SOUTH SIDE 1 written by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Deep South by the Way written by Joy Budensiek and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Deep South written by Roy Kerridge and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Deep South written by Paul Theroux and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deep South: An Excerpt by Paul Theroux was created exclusively as a gift for the patrons of the Inprint Poets & Writers Ball 2018, chaired by Chinhui Juhn & Eddie Allen and hosted by the Inprint Board of Directors at The Houstonian, February 3, 2018, in Houston, Texas. The book was designed by Cathy Hunt and Fiona McGettigan. The main typeface is Sagona. The paper stocks are French Parchtone Fleece White, Krafttone Chipboard Kraft and Oil Board. All copies were handbound by volunteers. Deep South: An Excerpt is a collaboration of Inprint, FioCat Press, and CORE Design Studio and is reprinted with the permission of Paul Theroux. Special thanks to Mr. Theroux.