A Review of the Book "Sid Richardson and Texas Oil"

Jim Gatewood a professor of History at Richland College; has written several books about Texas history that are important not only because they chronicle the lives of dynamic Texans, but more importantly that they preserve a very colorful, previously unpublished segment of Southwestern History.

No one knows how much money changed hands as the frenzied trading of oil properties in Texas took place in the Roaring Twenties.  A startled world was told that six wells in Texas could produce as much oil in one day as all the oil wells in the world.  Sid Richardson was boisterous and gruff but had a heart of gold.  Opportunity and Sid's ambition were about to collide.