Suggested Reading and Related Links
Books
Childs, William R. The Transformation of the
Railroad Commission of Texas, 1917-1940. Reprinted from Business
History Review 65. The President and Fellows of Harvard College,
1991.
Gard, Wayne. The First 100 Years of Texas Oil
& Gas. Dallas: Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association,
1965.
Goodwyn, Lawrence. Texas Oil, American Dreams.
Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996.
Malavis, Nicholas George. Bless the Pure and
Humble. College Station: Texas A&M University Press,
1996.
Prindle, David F. Petroleum and Politics: The
Texas Railroad Commission. Center for Energy Studies, The
University of Texas at Austin, 1980.
Railroad Commission of Texas. Railroad Commission
of Texas: The First Hundred Years, 1891-1991. Railroad Commission
Centennial Committee, 1991.
Reed, S.G. A History of the Texas Railroads.
Houston: St. Clair Publishing Company, 1941.
Rundell, Walter Jr. Early Texas Oil. College Station:
Texas A&M University Press, 1977.
Spratt, John S. The Road to Spindletop. Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1955, reprinted 1970.
Websites
Dictionary
of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms
The
Great Locomotive Explosion
The
Handbook of Texas - Railroads
The Marshall Depot
Oil History
OPEC,
A Texas-Sized Idea
The Railroad
Commission of Texas - Commission History
Two Centuries
of Railroading
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