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

American Oil & Gas Historical Society

Chronology of America’s Freight Railroads - Association of American Railroads

Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms (US Bureau of Mines, archived website managed by the National Archives and Records Administration)

The Great Locomotive Explosion - San Antonio Police History Archive

History of Oil Discoveries in Texas - Texas Almanac

A History of Railroads in Dallas - Museum of the American Railroad

The Marshall Depot

Oil and Texas: A Cultural History - Texas Almanac

Railroads - Handbook of Texas

RRC History - Railroad Commission of Texas

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