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Julie DeWees Sparks, Author of Under Texas Skies | The Jeff Crilley Show
The 1901 Spindletop gusher didn't just change Texas — it made the automobile affordable and reshaped the modern world. Julie DeWees Sparks spent forty years in the oil and gas business, starting at Getty Oil Company, and she's channeled all of that experience into her book Under Texas Skies.
Julie sits down with Jeff Crilley to talk about the wildcatters who drilled dozens of dry holes before striking it rich, the ranching families whose land sat atop massive oil fields, and the legendary names — Sid Richardson, the Hunts, Monty Moncrief, Glen McCarthy — who built fortunes and then gave back…
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