Growing Up in the Oil Patch
Publisher: Natural Heritage Books
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1989-06-30
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This book chronicles the adventures and achievements of some of the most colourful, ambitious people of their time statesmen, scoundrels, visionaries and developers. Participants all in the growing oil patch! The author presents a highly readable, informative and entertaining account of the early years in the development of Canada’s gas and oil industry. Based upon five years of research, interviews, and his fortuitous discovery of a rare, historically important scribbler, John Schmidt traces the paths of two enterprising American-born drillers, ’Frosty’ Martin and ’Tin...