Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Introduction ix
5. Prologue 1
6. 1. Breaking In 4
7. 2. From Weevil to Top Hand 17
8. 3. My First Boom: Nigger Creek/Mexia 29
9. 4. The Bruner Boom in Luling 38
10. 5. The Free State 46
11. 6. The East Texas Depression 55
12. 7. Fading Depression, Fading Boom 68
13. 8. Hard Rock Drilling in Hobbs and Oklahoma City; Leaving East Texas 82
14. 9. Cayuga and Mabank, Then on to Illinois and a New World 95
15. 10. West Texas-S-H-K and Big Lake 108
16. 11. Back to Odessa, Still Drilling 124
17. 12. Pushing Tools: Starting, Then Becoming the Loner 145
18. 13. Kermit and New Mexico: The Exodus from Odessa 164
19. 14. The Tulk Field 179
20. 15. Andrews and the Maguetex 191
21. 16. Back to New Mexico: Wildcat at Clovis 203
22. 17. Wildcat at Grandfalls, Then on to Lovington, Sweetwater, and Lovington Again 219
23. 18. Winding Up 242
24. Epilogue 247
25. Glossary 249
26. Index 253