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Four Famous (or Infamous) Families

February 6, 2009 12:09 pm by: Jennifer Stayton

Money, politics,and sex. The birth of the oil industry in Texas is dripping with all of that, and much more.

Author Bryan Burrough chronicles the adventures of the “Big Four” oil families in Texas history in his book The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes.

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