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200 10$aClaytie $ethe roller-coaster life of a Texas Wildcatter /$fby Mike Cochran
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aCollege Station $cTexas A & M University Press$dc2007
215   $a1 online resource (446 p.) 
300   $aIncludes index.
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327   $aIntro -- Contents -- Introduction -- One At Home in West Texas:Where Legacy Matters -- Two Oil-Patch Dreams: The Rise of Clajon, the Little Company That Could -- Three The Go-GoYears:  Blowouts, Blowups, Big Riches, and a Half-Billion-Dollar Debt -- Four Political Adventures:The Wildcatter Who Would Be Governor -- Five A New Millennium: No Slowing Down -- Recognitions -- Author's Acknowledgments -- Photo Credits -- Index.
330   $aThe native son of a distinguished West Texas family and a 1954 graduate of Texas A&M whose career and personal pursuits have ranged from farmer to insurance salesman to wildcatter, pipeline entrepreneur, rancher, banker, real estate mogul, big game hunter, conservationist, philanthropist, front-running gubernatorial candidate, and oil tycoon, Clayton W. Williams Jr. is by all measures one of a kind.  He has repeatedly been on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, yet more than once Claytie has also been on the verge of bankruptcy. This authorized biography captures the dimensions of his fascinating life: his determined work ethic and honesty; his passionate interests and rough-hewn style; his devotion to wife and constant companion Modesta and family; his all-in wildcatter bets and integrity-above-all payoff of debts; his patented gaffes in the "wildest, woolliest Texas governor's race ever" and their spotlighted consequences for the state and nation; and running through it all, both unrestrained celebrations and knees-on-the-ground repentance.  His many notable successes, his most admirable traits, as well as his most outrageous flaws are all portrayed in this book, often in Claytie's own words or in the extensive comments, revealing anecdotes, and first-person accounts of others, supplemented by family and business documents, as well as contemporary journalistic records.  This book tells it all, revealing one distinctive maverick who has left his boot prints all across Texas for 75 years.
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