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San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company, 1954. 142 pp., pictorial wraps; Book shows wear to edges of covers w/ a little curling & creasing to corners; spine is well worn w/ material chipped away at ends, as well as a library label; library & withdrawn stamps & card pocket to front endpaper; withdrawn stamps to inside of back cover; some light bends to fore edges of pages early in book / "Oil Field Fury tells about: Capt. 'Lone Wolf' Gonzaullas, the almost legendary Texas Ranger - The Ku Klux Klan, which set brother against brother in a quarrel which caused lives to be lost - Bart Jons, 'killer for pay;' did he slay the man who killed Billy the Kid? - The Colonel and the Senator, figures remarkable enough for fiction - 'Crude Cameos,' unforgettable vignettes of oil field atmosphere and drama - A judge as droll as a character drawn by Dickens - The devastating Cisco cyclone, which was predicted by a scoffed-at prophet - Ed Pritchard, quiet-spoken and firm, a key figure… Read More

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Co., [1954]. 8vo. 142 pp. Numerous photo plates. Brown tweed boards, dark-red lettering (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. (minor rubbing head of spine, price-clipped), NF/VG copy. First edition of this exciting account of the aftermath of the great oil boom collapse in Texas, with one county trying to throw off the shackles of organized crime.

Paperback / softback. New.