![]() ![]() They spent pools of money on everything from mink stoles to "ranches measured in Rhode Islands," but they also provided start-up funds for the emerging conservative movement, supporting, among others, LBJ, Billy Graham and Sen. ![]() These men were "shirt-sleeve billionaires," drawing from the ground vast fortunes (and losing them and regaining them) in the early days of Lone Star oil exploration, following the 1901 eruption of the Lucas No. (Flamboyant Houston millionaire Glenn McCarthy gets honorable mention.) Hunt, Clint Murchison, Roy Cullen and Sid Richardson. That's one of scores of entertaining anecdotes in "The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of Texas Oil Fortunes," a new book by Vanity Fair writer Bryan Burrough, who grew up in Temple, Texas, in the '70s hearing stories of oil-wealth eccentricity.īurrough, author of the best-seller "Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco," delves into the lives and legacies of the big four of Texas oil: H.L. ![]() ![]() In the '50s, a New England ladies club on a tour of Texas (yes, it was a foreign, exotic country) asked an oilman's wife how she kept her azaleas so radiant.Īh, the golden days of Texas oil, when they used every part of the furry little critter, from skin to scat. The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil ![]()
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