Oilfield Revolutionary

Houston Faust Mount

• Hardcover | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 23
• Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hats--and he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil explorati... Lees meer

Texas Merchant

Victoria Buenger, Walter L Buenger, W L Buenger

• Paperback | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 11
• Few department stores symbolized the aspirations of a community or represented the identity of its citizens in a stronger or more enduring way than Le... Lees meer

Electric City

Julia Kirk Blackwelder

• Hardcover | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 24
• For seven decades the General Electric Company maintained its manufacturing and administrative headquarters in Schenectady, New York. Electric City: G... Lees meer

Ben Love

Ben F Love, B Love

• Paperback | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 18
• In a city known for powerful business leaders, Ben Love towers as one of the most influential. Serving as CEO of Texas Commerce Bancshares in the 1980... Lees meer

George P. Mitchell, Volume 26

Loren C Steffy

• Hardcover | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 26
• Upon George Mitchell's death in 2013, The Economist proclaimed, "Few businesspeople have done as much to change the world as George Mitchell," a billi... Lees meer

The Texas Triangle

Henry Cisneros, David Hendricks, J H Cullum Clark, William Fulton

• Hardcover | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History
• This important new study examines the intricately linked phenomena of interwoven population growth, economic power, quality education, business leader... Lees meer

King of the Wildcatters

Ray Miles

• Paperback | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 9
• A legend among oilmen, Tom Slick was an independent operator in the truest sense. His office was his car during his early days of wildcatting the Mid-... Lees meer

Voice of the Marketplace

Joseph A Pratt, William H Becker, William M McClenahan

• Hardcover | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 13
• The National Petroleum Council (NPC) emerged out of the close cooperation between the petroleum industry and the federal government during World War I... Lees meer

Pattillo Higgins and the Search for Texas Oil

Robert W McDaniel

• Paperback | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History
• Texas and wildcatters--they go together. And Pattillo Higgins was the granddaddy of them all. Without him Spindletop, Texas' first gusher, would never... Lees meer

Crs and the Business of Architecture

• Hardcover | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 14
• Since the end of the Second World War, few firms have influenced the practice of architecture as much as Caudill Rowlett Scott, or CRS. From its estab... Lees meer

Richard E. Wainerdi and the Texas Medical Center, Volume 25

William Henry Kellar

• Hardcover | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 25
• In 2012, Richard E. Wainerdi retired as president and chief executive officer of the Texas Medical Center after almost three decades at the helm. Duri... Lees meer

The Offshore Imperative

Tyler Priest

• Hardcover | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History
• After World War II, the discovery and production of onshore oil in the United States faced decline. As a result, offshore prospects in the Gulf of Mex... Lees meer

Bless the Pure & Humble

Nicholas G Malavis

• Hardcover | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 8
• When oil was first struck in America in the nineteenth century, the courts were ill-prepared to deal with the legal issues it raised. Since it flowed ... Lees meer

Wildcatters

Roger M Olien, Diana Davids Hinton

• Paperback | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History
• In the 1970s and 1980s the Texas wildcatter was a recognizable figure in popular culture. Since then, the wildcatter's role is less celebrated but sti... Lees meer

Oleander Odyssey

Harold M Hyman

• Hardcover | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 6
• When Harris Kempner arrived at Ellis Island in 1854, he was an uneducated immigrant teenager escaping anti-Semitism and conscription into the czar's a... Lees meer

Oilfield Trash

Bobby D Weaver

• Paperback | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 22
• When the first gusher blew in at Spindletop, near Beaumont, Texas, in 1901, petroleum began to supplant cotton and cattle as the economic engine of th... Lees meer