Big Oil Country : West Texas Oil Survey Crew With Family: Texas Oil Company (Paperback)

This is a story about a long journey. A couple and children roam the roads of west Texas with an oil survey team surveying leases, piling up oil wells, and viewing attractions that few are fortunate enough to be seen.

In 1950, Ann was eighteen and Bob D twenty when he asked her to marry him and hit the road for West Texas. They packed their station wagon, left home, and began a life of adventure together on Conoco's West Texas survey crew during the 1950s oil boom. Five kids, twenty-one towns, and thirteen years on the road--Bob D and Ann's travels along the highways of West Texas are a portrait in a landscape of oilfields, railroads, and ranches.