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Spindletop Unwound: A True Story of Greed, Ambition and Murder in the First Degree
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Roger L Shaffer
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1997
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Through a Mexican land grant in 1834, William Humphries obtained a parcel of land near Beaumont, Texas. Although his purported heirs claim that land was never sold, in 1883, through a strange set of circumstances, W.P.H. McFaddin became the landowner of record. At the turn of the century Captain Anthony Lucas, an immigrant from Austria, leased the land and on January 10, 1901, brought in the well that would be regarded as the mother of all gushers. Spindletops gusher drew more people to the oil patch than the California or Klondike gold rushes, and the Texas oil industry leaped into life. Spindletop attracted big names and big money. And the fortune produced by Spindletop fueled a ninety-year attack for ownership and mineral rights to the Humperies original parcel of land. There was Texas-sized trouble brewing.

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title	:	Spindletop Unwound
author	:	Shaffer, Roger L.
publisher	:	Republic of Texas Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	1556225504
print isbn13	:	9781556225505
ebook isbn13	:	9780585262413
language	:	English
subject	Trials--Texas, McFadden family, Humphrey family, Petroleum industry and trade--Texas--Beaumont Region, Inheritance and succession--zTexas--Beaumont Region.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	KF228.M388S53 1998eb
ddc	:	364.15/23/09764145
subject	:	Trials--Texas, McFadden family, Humphrey family, Petroleum industry and trade--Texas--Beaumont Region, Inheritance and succession--zTexas--Beaumont Region.

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Spindletop Unwound

Roger L. Shaffer

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shaffer, Roger L. (Roger Lee), 1941-.
Spindletop unwound / Roger L. Shaffer.
p cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-55622-550-4 (pb)
1. TrialsTexas. 2. McFadden family. 3. Humphries family.
4. Petroleum industry and tradeTexasBeaumont Region.
5. Inheritance and successionTexasBeaumont Region. I. Title.
KF228 M388S53 1997
364 15'23'09764145dc21 97-12739
CIP

Republic of Texas Press is an imprint of Wordware Publishing, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from Wordware Publishing, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN 1-55622-550-4
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
9707

Page iii

Oct 1850
I certify these to be 64 pages & a piece of free
inhabitance & done as near in acordance with my
oath as I could do it the people was hard to get
along with
H Swearingen A M

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

A Cast of Characters

The Killing

In the Beginning

Gunfight at Nacogdoches

Family Values

Tribulations and the Trial

Money Matters

Party Time

Get Thee to a Nunnery

Credibility and Credit Ability

From Party Barn to the Big House

The Lawsuits

A Primer

Lawyers Relief: The Humphries Lawsuits

Generations of Humphries Claims

The Humphries Trilogy

Brown Peregoy

Rule 11

Other Irrational Claims and Claimants

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