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Sand and the River

Sand and the River


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Sand and the River is the story of the Gage family of Oklahoma, taking place largely in the 20's and 30's. Oklahoma, not long a state, was booming. Oil wells were popping up in many areas of the state. Towns that had existed only as small farming communities or had not existed at all were suddenly bustling cities. Many of the large--huge?--oil companies that were familiar names in America for most of the twentieth century got their starts in the Oklahoma oil fields. Lots of people got rich. The Gages were not among them; they were, for the most part, laborers, overseeing the pumping oil wells, or, in the case of Frank Gage, helping the actually drilling for oil. One brother, Walter, became an agent for the Oklahoma Bureaus of Investigation and Identification. His story was told--a part of it--in A Few Dead Indians, the novel that preceded this one. Frank Gage, unlike his brother, was part of the rough-and-tumble world known as the oil patch. He didn't mind a little fight now and then, a little drink, and the occasional woman. And even the occasional brush with the law.
About the Author: 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 classrooms and in auditoriums, directing plays. But the reminders of life in the oil fields were always around him.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781495264986
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 286
  • Series Title: Oklahoma Oil
  • Weight: 471 gr
  • ISBN-10: 149526498X
  • Publisher Date: 14 Feb 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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