Burrough, Bryan,   1961- <br/><br/>
The big rich :   the rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes / 
Bryan Burrough. 
 - New York :  Penguin Press,  2009. 
 - xiv, 466 p. [16] p. of plates :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>"There's something down there ..." -- The creekologist -- Sid and Clint -- The bigamist and the boom -- The worst of times, the best of times -- The big rich -- Birth of the ultraconservatives -- War and peace -- The New World -- "A clumsy and immeasurable power" -- "Troglodyte, genus Texana" -- The golden years -- Rising sons -- Sun, sex, spaghetti-and murder -- Watergate, Texas-style -- The last boom -- The great silver caper -- The bust. 
<br/><br/> Chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the twentieth century--Texas oil--by weaving together the epic sagas of the industry's Big Four (Roy Cullen, H.L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson) in a story of wealth, power, family feuds, scandals, and bankruptcies. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781594201998 1594201994 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Petroleum industry and trade--Texas--Biography.<br/>Industria y comercio del petróleo<br/>Industria del petróleo
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD 9567  / B972b 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.2/7280922764