Download or read book Black Gold, Roughnecks and Oil Town Tales written by Loren G Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storyteller Loren G. Kelly recounts a poetic historical epic of his wildcatter grandfather, roughneck father and nomad-like oil field Irish Kelly ancestors, traveling to oil boom towns, exploring for black gold and drilling oil well gushers in the oil fields of America's early twentieth century. The author depicts growing up in the oil refinery town of Phillips, Texas, on the high plains of the Texas Panhandle, where a monstrous refinery belched fire from explosions, spewed clouds of pollution and vented poisonous gas over the roofs of oil families' company houses. Loren paints an extraordinary picture of community in the oil patch and within Phillips, Texas, now a ghost town, remaining only in the memories of its former residents, who can never go home. Includes vintage oil field photos and a rare Amelia Earhart photograph.