The Kings Of Big Spring
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The Kings Of Big Spring
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Author : Bryan Mealer
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2018-02-06
The Kings Of Big Spring written by Bryan Mealer and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Think of it as a Texas version of Hillbilly Elegy." — Bryan Burrough, New York Times bestselling author of THE BIG RICH and BARBARIANS AT THE GATE "Bryan Mealer has given us a brilliant, and brilliantly entertaining, portrayal of family, and a bursting-at-the-seams chunk of America in the bargain.” — Ben Fountain, bestselling author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk A saga of family, fortune, faith in Texas, where blood is bond and oil is king... 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. Beset by drought, the family loses their farm just as the dead pastures around them give way to one of the biggest oil booms in American history. They eventually settle in the small town of Big Spring, where fast fortunes are being made from its own reserves of oil. 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. After embracing Pentecostalism during the Great Depression, they rely heavily on their faith to steel them against hardship and despair. But for young Bobby Mealer, the author’s father, religion is only an agent for rebellion. In the winter of 1981, when the author is seven years old, Bobby receives a call from an old friend with a simple question, “How'd you like to be a millionaire?” Twenty-six, and with a wife and three kids, Bobby had left his hometown to seek a life removed from the blowing dust and oil fields, and to find spiritual peace. But now Big Spring’s streets are flooded again with roughnecks, money, and sin. Boom chasers pour in from the busted factory towns in the north. Drilling rigs rise like timber along the pastures, and poor men become millionaires overnight. Grady Cunningham, Bobby's friend, is one of the newly-minted kings of Big Spring. Loud and flamboyant, with a penchant for floor-length fur coats, Grady pulls Bobby and his young 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. A masterwork of memoir and narrative history, The Kings of Big Spring is an indelible portrait of fortune and ruin as big as Texas itself. And in telling the story of four generations of his family, Mealer also tells the story of America came to be.
History Of The Big Spring Presbytery Of The United Presbyterian Church And Its Territorial Predecessors 1750 1879
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Author : James Brown Scouller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
History Of The Big Spring Presbytery Of The United Presbyterian Church And Its Territorial Predecessors 1750 1879 written by James Brown Scouller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with categories.
History Of The Big Spring Presbyterian Church Newville Pa
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Author : Gilbert Ernest Swope
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
History Of The Big Spring Presbyterian Church Newville Pa written by Gilbert Ernest Swope and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Newville (Cumberland County, Pa.) categories.
Bristol Tennessee Virginia
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Author : Victor N. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Release Date : 1992
Bristol Tennessee Virginia written by Victor N. Phillips and has been published by The Overmountain Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Covering Bristol's formative years, this is the story of people and events surrounding the rise of this city between two states—the town that Joseph R. Anderson, its founder, wanted to call "Paradise." The book reveals a cross section of Bristol's ancestry, ranging from the noble and well-known to the humble and obscure. Containing a myriad of facts that will be of wide local interest, the narrative offers insight into the human condition as it existed during the last century. Enhanced with numerous old photographs, this carefully researched volume is a definitive reference on Bristol.
Midland
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Author : Michael Croley
language : en
Publisher: Tiller Press
Release Date : 2020-09-08
Midland written by Michael Croley and has been published by Tiller Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Political Science categories.
A collection of revelatory stories from leading journalists between the coasts, offering a perspective on immigration, drug addiction, climate change, and more that you won’t find in the national media. After the 2016 election, the national media fretted over what they could have missed in the middle of the country. Journalists in the middle of the country shook their head at these narratives about Trump Country and the forgotten. Ted Genoways, one of the prominent contributors here, foresaw how close the election would be and in its aftermath put out a public call on Facebook, tagging writers from those midland states, to answer the national media’s puzzlement with their own stories of what had been lying in wait all along. Representing a true cross-section of America, both geographically and ethnically, these writers prepare us for another election cycle by highlighting the true diversity of the American experience. Esther Honig describes the effects of the immigration crackdown in Colorado; C.J. Janovy writes about the challenges of being an LGBTQ+ activist in Kansas; Karen Coates and Valeria Fernández show us the children harvesting our food; and Sydney Boles chronicles a miner’s protest in Kentucky. For readers willing to look at the American experience that the pundits don’t know about or cover, Midland is an invaluable peek into the hearts and minds of largely unheard Americans.
All The King S Men
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Author : Robert Penn Warren
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2002
All The King S Men written by Robert Penn Warren and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
Willie Stark's obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration.
All Things Must Fight To Live
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Author : Bryan Mealer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-01-08
All Things Must Fight To Live written by Bryan Mealer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-08 with Political Science categories.
In All Things Must Fight to Live, Bryan Mealer takes readers on a harrowing two-thousand mile journey through Congo, where gun-toting militia still rape and kill with impunity. Amidst burnt-out battlefields where armies still wrestle for control, into the dark corners of the forests, and along the high savanna, where thousands have been slaughtered and quickly forgotten, Mealer searches for signs that Africa's most troubled state will soon rise from ruin. At once illuminating and startling, All Things Must Fight to Live is a searing portrait of an emerging country facing unimaginable upheaval and almost impossible odds, as well as an unflinching look at the darkness that continues to exist in the hearts of men. It is non-fiction at its finest-powerful, moving, necessary.
Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex Ash Meadows Desert Moapa Valley And Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuges Comprehensive Conservation Plan
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex Ash Meadows Desert Moapa Valley And Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuges Comprehensive Conservation Plan written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
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Author : William Kamkwamba
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-02-05
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind written by William Kamkwamba and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-05 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land. Retold for a younger audience, this exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy's brilliant idea can light up the world. Complete with photographs, illustrations, and an epilogue that will bring readers up to date on William's story, this is the perfect edition to read and share with the whole family.
The Book Of Kings
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Author : V. N. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Release Date : 1999
The Book Of Kings written by V. N. Phillips and has been published by The Overmountain Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Much more than a simple portrait of a pioneer family, this chronicle is actually a history of Bristol from a different perspective. It would be virtually impossible to write a complete history of this city without including a record of the pioneer King family. Likewise, it would be very difficult to write of this family and not become involved in general Bristol history.