Wildcatting - Softcover

A bold, magical story of the untamed American West focuses on Hiram Jameson--a born wildcatter who risks his livelihood, his life, and the mythical self he creates for his women--to drill for oil in unlikely places. Reprint.

ck and smooth as oil." The San Francisco Review of Books
With his wild recklessness, his magic touch, and his rash ways, Hiram Jameson was a born wildcatter, staking his life and livelihood drilling for oil in unlikely places. But oil would twist Hiram and kill him, and take a price, finally, from his family -- the women who basked in his coppery brilliance, even when they were no longer blinded by the myth of his own creation. An unforgettable reading experience, alive with passion, dark with greed and desperation!