Lambert, Bob

The author's family was deeply involved in the oil business-in Oklahoma at first, then later over much of the western United States and in Canada. The men were pumpers, roustabouts, truck drivers, drillers, production foremen, petroleum engineers, and, in one case, the president of a major oil company. The women were sometimes housewives, but the author's mother worked in the office of an oil company and his aunt was, among other things, a successful "landman," the person who dealt with landowners to secure drilling rights. It all looked like too much work, though, and he wound up in classroom...