A companion volume to Bryan Burrough's Texas oil history — focusing specifically on the independent wildcatters who drilled speculative oil wells outside the major companies' established fields — and the personality type that made them successful.
Documents the wildcatter personality — the high-risk tolerance, the geological intuition, the willingness to drill where majors wouldn't — as a distinct entrepreneurial archetype that appears across industries wherever new territory is being opened.
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