This in Canyon Lake in the Texas Hill Country, halfway between Austin and San Antonio. I watched it being built in the early 1960's. Its 8,230 acres big and at normal water levels it is 134 feet deep. The water is so cold coming out the discharges at the bottom of the lake, down the Guadalupe River, rainbow and brown trout can survive in it. In 2002 the area received over 30 inches of rain in <30 hours and the earthen spillway around the dam at Canyon Lake cut out, exposing Cretaceous age...

This is Adair; in 1953; he is 38 years old. He's been with Myron Kinley since 1946 and is an old well control hand now, capable of leading off on any sort of job, anywhere in the world. He is with a fella named Mansell Rake, who has been over in Louisiana with Myron on a big, complicated job for Pure Oil, south of Morgan City and when this job In Wharton County, southwest of Houston came in on April 12, 1953. Rake drove over to meet Red to help. Red hurt his right leg by jumping off a rig...

Refugio is pronounced, (re-FYOO-ri-o); its a county located along the lower Texas Gulf Coastal plains north and slightly east of Corpus Christi, its county seat is the city of Refugio. It is rich in large ranch history (Welders and O'Connors), cattle, cotton, oil and gas. Part of the county to the south lies along Copano Bay and the Aransas Wildlife Refuge, where whooping cranes spend the winter and big redfish can be caught in crystal clear water, then grilled on the half shell to...