A Stake in West Texas: Pulling a Chain and Raising a Family Across Big Oil Country

In 1950, Ann was eighteen and Bob D twenty when he asked herto marry him and hit the road for West Texas. They packed their station wagon,left home and began a life of adventure together on Conocoa s West Texas surveycrew during the 1950s oil boom. Five kids, twenty-one towns and thirteen yearson the roada Bob D and Anna s travels along the highways of West Texas are aportrait in a landscape of oilfields, railroads and ranches. Layering localhistory with family memoir, author Rebecca D. Henderson reveals a glimpse of mid-centuryWest Texas through her grandparentsa
adventures as a young couple raisingchildren on the road.