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The kings of Big Spring, God, oil, and one family's search for the American dream, by Bryan Mealer

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The kings of Big Spring, God, oil, and one family's search for the American dream, by Bryan Mealer

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

collective biography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The kings of Big Spring

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bibliography

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1025329486

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by Bryan Mealer

Sub title

God, oil, and one family's search for the American dream

Summary

"In 1892, Bryan Mealer's great-grandfather leaves the Georgia mountains and heads west into Texas, looking for wealth and adventure in the raw and open country. But his luck soon runs out. For the next two generations, the Mealers live on the margins of poverty, laboring in the cotton fields and on the drilling rigs that sprout along the flatland, weathering dust and wind, booms and busts, and tragedies that scatter them like tumbleweed. Grady Cunningham, Bobby's friend, is one of the newly-minted kings of Big Spring. Grady pulls Bryans parents wife into his glamorous orbit. While drilling wells for Grady's oil company, they fly around on private jets and embrace the honky-tonk high life of Texas oilmen. But beneath the Rolexes and Rolls Royce cars is a reality as dark as the crude itself. As Bobby soon discovers, his return to Big Spring is a backslider's journey into a spiritual wilderness, and one that could cost him his life."

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