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Gamble in the Devil's Chalk

By: Caleb Pirtle, III

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In the mid 1970s, a band of men with little expertise in the oilfield defied the hard ground of Giddings, Texas, to search for oil in a barren, poverty-stricken land that was littered with dry holes, shattered hopes, and empty pockets. Max Williams, the former hot-shot basketball player at SMU, and Irv Deal had been in high-dollar real estate until the real estate market collapsed. Both were facing the wrath of hard times. Pat Holloway was a lawyer who operated drilling funds but had never tested the ill-fated Austin Chalk. He drilled the most and earned the most but lost it all in the shady confines of a Dallas courtroom. Jimmy Luecke was a highway patrolman who stopped Holloway for speeding one night and promised not to take him to jail if the lawyer/oilman would agree to drill on his family's land. Bill Shuford was right out of college and more interested in finding the next beer joint than his next job. Jim Dobos was a constable who used his badge to lease land, struck it rich, and was found with a gunshot in his head. Was it murder or suicide? Clayton Williams was the only big-time oilman in the bunch, but in the beginning, he made the mistake of employing the wrong geologist. Only those who used the geologic genius of Ray Holifield found oil. Holifield had cracked the code of the chalk. Gamble in the Devil's Chalk is the true story of their fights, their feuds, their trials, their tribulations, and their triumphs as they discovered the second largest oilfield in the United States during the past half century. Once they came, Giddings would never be the same again.

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Gamble in the Devil's Chalk

By: Caleb Pirtle, III

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Jokers are Wild

By: Caleb Pirtle, III,Caleb Pirtle,Frank Q. Dobbs

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Jokers are Wild

By: Caleb Pirtle, III,Caleb Pirtle,Frank Q. Dobbs

Color illustration on front cover of a silver-haired bearded man (Kenny Rogers) wearing a black coat, fancy vest and black tie sitting at a table with playing cards and betting chips.

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1572970537

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9781572970533

Cloverleaf

By: Caleb Pirtle, III

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Cloverleaf

By: Caleb Pirtle, III

This is the poignant story of 13 year old Barbara Atkins and her love for a big sorrel barrel racing horse as she struggles to keep the horse against all odds, become accepted by an irrascible old grandfather she had never known, and capture the dream of a championship run.

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0918865034

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9780918865038

Dead Man's Hand

By: Caleb Pirtle,Frank Q. Dobbs

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Dead Man's Hand

By: Caleb Pirtle,Frank Q. Dobbs

Color illustration on front cover of a silver-haired bearded man wearing a black hat, coat and fancy vest on horseback firing a pistol with his proper right hand.

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1572970936

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9781572970939

Conspiracy of Lies

By: Caleb Pirtle III

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Conspiracy of Lies

By: Caleb Pirtle III

It was the race for the Atomic bomb. America was at war a long way from home. Hitler's war machine was storming across Europe. Russia feared the German threat and secretly wanted to become a world power, more feared than it already was. All three nations knew that whoever split the atom and developed the Atomic Bomb first would rule the world. A stealth espionage operation within the U. S. Government dispatched their man with no memory to Los Alamos where physicists, chemists, and scholars were frantically trying to build the bomb. Ambrose Lincoln was himself a human experiment, a man whose mind had been erased by electronic shock treatments because the rogue political operation believed he could be more effective if he wasn't shackled by fears and memories of the past. It would be his duty to uncover and silence those spies who were trying to steal America's most vital secrets and selling them to Russia and Germany. If he fails the United States might well lose the war, and Lincoln finds himself embedded in a conspiracy of lies where nothing is as it seems to be.

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163363132X

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Cloverleaf

By: Caleb Pirtle, III

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Cloverleaf

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The Lonely Sentinel

Fort Clark, on Texas's Western Frontier

By: Caleb Pirtle,Michael F. Cusack

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The Lonely Sentinel

Fort Clark, on Texas's Western Frontier

By: Caleb Pirtle,Michael F. Cusack

Established in the early 1850's, Fort Clark, located west of San Antonio on the western frontier of the new state of Texas, succumbed to the eternal changes of time before quietly reaching the century mark.

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0890155089

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9780890155080

Architecture for Healing

By: HKS Inc,Caleb Pirtle III.,Judith Winchester,Justin Ellis,Kate Siegel,Lecia Baker

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Architecture for Healing

By: HKS Inc,Caleb Pirtle III.,Judith Winchester,Justin Ellis,Kate Siegel,Lecia Baker

This book is an HKS Inc. company profile that includes explanations for and color photographs of thier Architecture for Healing projects.

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1879234637

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9781879234635

Book's by Caleb Pirtle

Gamble in the Devil's Chalk

Gamble in the Devil's Chalk

Gamble in the Devil's Chalk

Gamble in the Devil's Chalk

Jokers are Wild

Jokers are Wild

Cloverleaf

Cloverleaf

Dead Man's Hand

Dead Man's Hand

Conspiracy of Lies

Conspiracy of Lies

Cloverleaf

Cloverleaf

The Lonely Sentinel

The Lonely Sentinel

Architecture for Healing

Architecture for Healing

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