Giant Under the Hill

A History of the Spindletop Oil Discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901

By: Judith Walker Linsley, Ellen Walker Rienstra, Jo Ann Stiles

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Paperback | 2 February 2002

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How did they do it? How did a profligate who killed a deputy sheriff before reforming, a mining engineer who went AWOL from the Austrian Navy, and three East Texas drillers join forces with other equally colorful characters to drill on Spindletop hill? Giant Under the Hill is a scholarly work firmly rooted in the narrative tradition, a great story intriguingly told by three Beaumont historians: Jo Ann Stiles, Ellen Rienstra, and Judith Linsley. Using material collected over decades, much of it never before published, they bring to life the efforts of Pattillo Higgins, Anthony Lucas, Al and Curt Hamill, and Peck Byrd to master the Spindletop salt dome that culminated in the discovery of the great Lucas gusher. Their find subsequently transformed not only the state of Texas but the entire oil industry. Giant Under the Hill is the definitive story of one of the most significant and colorful moments in Texas history.

The authors delved deeply into available records and found treasures at every turn. As news of their work spread, people came forward from all over the country with even more photographs and documents.

This exhaustively researched book focuses on the Lucas gusher in Beaumont in 1901, as well as the events leading up to it and the immediate aftermath. It's all here -- the challenge and frustration of the search, the excitement of the discovery, the euphoric chaos of the boom, and the genesis of the giant companies. After the gusher came in, life would never be the same.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Prologue	p. 1
The Early Seekers	p. 5
The Hometown Boy	p. 23
Gladys City	p. 37
The Outsider	p. 53
The Brothers	p. 71
The Well	p. 89
Spindletop	p. 111
Boomtown	p. 133
The Oil Field	p. 153
Foundations	p. 185
Spindletop: A Retrospective	p. 211
Selected Bibliography	p. 235
Notes	p. 245
Index	p. 281
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