It was searching for the name “Jack Engle” in mid-19th-century newspapers that put Zachary Turpin on to the “warm lead” that turned into a “white hot” discovery: A forgotten 165-year-old novel written by Walt Whitman. Turpin, a Ph.D. student at the University of Houston, already made history last year when he discovered hitherto unknown musings on “Manly Health and Training” written by the author of “Song of Myself,” ”I Sing the Body Electric” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.”
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Book review: Oil is in SA wildcatter’s blood
Gene Ames Jr. is a fourth generation oilman whose wildcatter grandfather drilled his first well in 1913 in Cushing, OK. “I really know the oil field,” said Ames, 83, whose grandchildren are now in the oil business – “That makes six generations,” he says proudly – and is still drilling himself, as managing partner for San Antonio-based Compadre Energy , Ltd. “I was raised in the East Texas oil field.