Bryan Burrough (70 page)

1
Wolfe,
The Murchisons,
389.

2
Ibid., 410.

3
Ibid., 411.

4
Dallas Morning News,
Oct. 25, 1986.

5
Houston Chronicle,
March 17, 1986.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Research for this book was drawn from a variety of sources, including interviews, documents from two dozen archives in Texas and elsewhere, plus more than two hundred books and thousands of newspaper and magazine articles on subjects from the families themselves to the Texas oil industry to the rise of modern American conservatism.

Much of my research is original, but much is not. It’s important to differentiate between the two, mostly to give credit to the writers from whose work I’ve borrowed. Chief among these are Harry Hurt, author of the definitive Hunt-family biography,
Texas Rich,
and Jane Wolfe, author of
The Murchisons.
Both authors’ work informed just about every chapter in this one, especially in later sections. Chapter 15, which deals with the wiretapping travails of Bunker and Herbert Hunt, was drawn largely from Hurt. Likewise, the portrait of Clint Murchison Jr. contained here is based mostly on Wolfe. In both cases I found I simply couldn’t improve significantly on what these two talented authors had done more than two decades ago.

Three others books are important to note as well.
Clint,
an authorized biography of Clint Murchison by his longtime secretary, Ernestine Orrick Van Buren, was invaluable, as was Hugh Roy Cullen’s authorized biography, 1954’s
Hugh Roy Cullen: A Story of American Opportunity.
The third book I would mention is
H.L. & Lyda
by Margaret Hunt Hill.

What follows is a list of books I cite or drew from for
The Big Rich:

 

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———.
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———.
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Armstrong, George.
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———.
The Zionists.
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Ashman, Charles.
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Bainbridge, John.
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Baker, Bobby, with Larry L. King.
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Ball, Douglas, and Dan S. Turner.
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Barragy, T. J.
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Bell, Douglas, ed.
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Bird, Kai.
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Bjerre-Poulsen, Niels.
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Boatright, Mody.
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Brown, Stanley H.
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Bryce, Robert.
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Byrd, David Harold.
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Carleton, Don E.
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———.
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Caro, Robert A.
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———.
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———.
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Castaneda, Christopher James.
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———.
Regulated Enterprise: Natural Gas Pipelines and Northeastern Markets, 1938-1954.
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Castaneda, Christopher J., and Joseph A. Pratt.
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Castaneda, Christopher J., and Clarance M. Smith.
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Chestnutt, N. P.
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Clark, James A., and Michel T. Halbouty.
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Shearer, 1972.

 

———.
Spindletop: The True Story of the Oil Discovery that Changed the World.
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Coleman, Loren.
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Conaway, James.
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Connolly, John, with Mickey Herskowitz.
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Conway, Flo, and Jim Siegelman.
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Cook, Blanche Wiesen.
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Cook, Fred J.
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———.
The Roosevelt Myth.
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Forster, Arnold, and Benjamin R. Epstein.
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Fuermann, George.
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———.
Houston: Land of the Big Rich.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1951.

 

———.
Reluctant Empire: The Mind of Texas.
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———.
Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire.
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———.
Lone Star Literature.
New York: W.W. Norton, 2003.

 

———.
Texas: A Literary Portrait.
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Grant, Joseph M.
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Griffith, Robert.
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Hardeman, D. B., and Donald C. Bacon.
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