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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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Conspiracy of Lies

By: Caleb Pirtle III

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Conspiracy of Lies

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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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Gamble in the Devil's Chalk

By: Caleb Pirtle, III

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Other Voices, Other Towns

The Traveler's Story

By: Caleb Pirtle III

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The Traveler's Story

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Other Voices, Other Towns" has, in reality, taken Caleb Pirtle III a lifetime to write. During the thirty years he has been writing about travel across this great land, he spent much of his time listening to those whose paths he crossed. Pirtle collects people. He collects their stories. He is firmly convinced that everyone who has ever walked across the street has a great story to tell if only someone will take the time to listen. Pirtle has recorded many of them in "Other Voices, Other Towns." The sketches, the anecdotes, the tales they tell, the memories they have stored, their lessons of life make you feel better or make you want to cry. Their stories are filled with disappointments and with inspiration: The blind man who tends his beehives in the Smoky Mountains and knows that someday "I'm going to where the mountains are higher and prettier and you don't get bee stung." The rancher who bought a whole town because it had a beer joint, and he could get a drink any time he was thirsty. The woman who built a major university on the strength of a dime. The grieving father searching for "the best little girl in the world." The vagabond who became a great writer because he flunked grammar and could not enroll in college. The last man on the mountain, the last survivor on an island, the last woman strong enough to tame though not civilize the Okefenokee Swamp. The teacher who taught history in school by singing the lessons he had written as songs. The men who created "Lum and Abner." The scientist digging for clues to prove a space ship had crashed in the backyard of Aurora, Texas. The performer who rescued the abandoned remains of a crumbling theater. The actor who figured out that a theater ticket was worth a mess of greens or a gallon milk during the Great Depression. The old con artist and wildcatter who defied the odds and discovered a great oilfield. The politician who had one cause, passed it in the legislature, and went home because there were no other bills that concerned him. The fishermen who stumbled across pearls in a landlocked lake. The girl singer who rode in a small RV behind the star until she became the star. The sad journey down the trail of broken promises. And the greatest worm fiddler of them all. For Pirtle, other voices in other towns, have all been joined together to form the traveler's story.

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0984208364

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Trail of Broken Promises

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Trail of Broken Promises

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It may have been the greatest injustice of all. A nation was uprooted. A nation was ripped apart from its ancestral lands with its peoples' feet pointed west. So many died along the way. The Five Civilized Tribes - the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole - rose to power on the land of their fathers, atop great smoky mountains, deep within vast timbered forests, lost among the mangroves, palmettos, and rivers of grass. They were strong and proud - hunters who had become farmers. Many fine plantations were firmly planted on the land they called home, and slaves picked their cotton in the fields. They had achieved self-government and prospered. But civilization rolled selfishly into their nation. Treaties were passed, signed, and ignored. Promises were made and broken, sometimes just forgotten. The removal of the tribes from their homeland in the Southeast to Indian Territory takes on a new dimension as author Caleb Pirtle relates to a culture that existed before the Europeans set foot on American soil. The people suffered greatly from this exodus - driven like cattle herds across frozen ground and icy rivers, families separated, children and the old ones dying - as they struggled down a path that would forever be known as "The Trail Where They Cried." They were victimized by America's "Indian Policy." It was a grave mistake. Trail of Broken Promises was written for the casual historian searching for an emotional overview of a dark era in America's past. Developed for the traveler, the book contains numerous photographs depicting the heritage and culture of the Five Civilized Tribes, as well as historical traces - homes, council houses, prisons, and forts - of their early days in Oklahoma.

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0984208372

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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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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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Cloverleaf

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Cloverleaf

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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

Cloverleaf

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Cloverleaf

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Jokers are Wild

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

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Book's by Caleb Pirtle III

Gamble in the Devil's Chalk

Gamble in the Devil's Chalk

Conspiracy of Lies

Conspiracy of Lies

Gamble in the Devil's Chalk

Gamble in the Devil's Chalk

Other Voices, Other Towns

Other Voices, Other Towns

Trail of Broken Promises

Trail of Broken Promises

Jokers are Wild

Jokers are Wild

Dead Man's Hand

Dead Man's Hand

Cloverleaf

Cloverleaf

Cloverleaf

Cloverleaf

Jokers are Wild

Jokers are Wild

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