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Columbus Marion 'Dad' Joiner — the aging wildcatter who in 1930 discovered the East Texas oil field, the largest oil discovery in US history at the time — and who was swindled out of most of his fortune by H.L. Hunt.
Texas wildcatter who acquired Dad Joiner's East Texas oil field in a sharp dealing, used it to build the largest personal fortune in the United States — and whose ultra-conservative political media empire made him as polarizing as he was wealthy.
Texas oil man from the Moncrief family — one of the great Fort Worth oil dynasties — whose career exemplified the wildcatter spirit of relentless drilling and willingness to risk everything on the next well.
Texas wildcatter who struck enormous oil wealth in the Permian Basin — partnering with his friend Clint Murchison — and whose personal fortune (one of the largest in America at his death) was accumulated through extreme geological risk-taking and a lifelong bachelor's reinvestment of all profits.