Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers: Thirty-Three Years in the Oil Fields

This is the only book I can think of that is written from the point of view of a working man. Mr. Lynch worked on drilling rigs from the early days until the eighties. He has a lot of love for his life in the oil field. I loaned my copy of the book to a man who had also worked in the oil field and he was fasinated with its reality. The book taught me a lot about how oil is found. I live in an oil field but did not know much about the nuts and bolts of the drilling process. I have seen industries and ways of life pass away without a word being written about how the work was performed and how the workers related to one another. Large populations of workers have gone away leaving no written word of what they did. This is a book that develops a story of how people in the oil field lived and worked. It is not written from the point of view of bankers, corporation executives or office clerks.