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  INDEX

  Abdullah Ibn Abdul-Aziz, Prince

  Adams, Jay

  Adams, K. S. “Bud,” 298-99

  Adams, Nathan

  Alleghany Corporation

  Allen, George

  Alpaca (Hunt)

  Alpaca Revisited (Hunt)

  American Football League (AFL)

  American Liberty

  Anderson, M. D.

  Anderson, Robert B.

  Anglo-American Petroleum Agreement (1944)

  anti-Semitism

  Applewhite, Charles

  Arab oil embargo (1973)

  Ardrey, Rushton

  Armstrong, George W.

  Athens, Tex.

  Bache Group

  Bagdikian, Ben

  Bailey, Old Man

  Bainbridge, John

  Baker, Edith

  Baker, James

  Baker, James A.

  Bass, Anne

  Bass, Anne (“Little Anne”)

  Bass, Annie Richardson

  Bass, Ed

  Bass, E. P. “Doc,”

  Bass, Lee

  Bass, Nancy Lee

  Bass, Perry

  Bass, Robert

  Bass, Sid Richardson

  Bass Brothers Enterprises

  Bass family

  Bateman, Ed

  Beaumont, Tex.

  Higgins and

  McCarthy and

  Beebe, Herman K.

  Bentsen, Lloyd

  Berle, Milton

  Big Four families

  media coverage of

  ranches of

  Big Hill (Spindletop) oil field

  Blaffer, Robert Lee

  Blood, Money & Power (McClellan)

  Bradford, Daisy

  Brandt, Gil

  Britain, Persian Gulf oil and

  British Petroleum (BP)

  Brooks, R. E.

  Brown, Dalton

  Brown, George

  Brown, Herman

  Brown, John

  Brown & Root

  Buckburnett, Tex.

  Buckley, Willliam F.

  Burns, Perry

  Burns agency

  Bush, Barbara

  Bush, George H. W.

  Bush, George W.

  Bush family

  Byars, Billy

  Byrd. H.

  Byrd, Peck

  Cain, Wofford

  Caro, Robert

  Carter, Amon

  cattle

  Centex Construction

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  Chase Manhattan Bank

  Cheek, Jim

  Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)

  Cities Service

  Clark, Ed

  Clark, Norma

  Closuit, Ernest

  Comex

  Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

  communists, communism

  Condon, Edward

  Congress, U.S.:

  Arab oil embargo and

  Facts Forum and

  Graham religious service and

  natural gas industry and

  Roosevelt and

  World War II and

  see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

  Connally, John

  bankruptcy of

  Hunt silver scheme and

  Hunt wiretapping case and

  Conroe, Tex.

  conservative movement, oil wealth and

  Conti Commodity Services

  Corduroy Road (Davis)

  cornering of markets

  cotton

  Cotton Bowl

  Cox Bay oil field

  Crawford, Joan

  Criswell, William

  Cullen, Ezekiel

  Cullen, Hugh Roy

  Brooks and

  Cheek and

  childhood of

  as creekologist

  Damon’s Mound field and

  death of

  doctorate of science awarded to

  early career of

  Humble oil field and

  libel suit against

  McCarthy and

  marriage of

  mass media and

  O’Connor oil field and

  philanthropy of

  Pierce Junction wells of

  politics and

  Rabbs Ridge sale and

  ranch of

  West and

  World War II and

  Cullen, Lillie Cranz

  Cullen, Louise

  Cullen, Roy, Jr.

  Cullen, Roy Gustave

  Cullen & West

  Cullen di Portanova, Lillie Cranz

  Cullen family

  Cullen Foundation

  Currington, John

  Daisy Bradford No. 3 oil well

  Dallas

  Dallas, Tex.:

  conservative movement and

  football and

  Hunts and

  Kennedy assassination in

  McCarthy and

  Murchisons and

  oil wealth and

  Reunion project in

  World War II and

  see also First National Bank of Dallas; Republic National Bank of Dallas

  Dallas Cowboys

  Dallas Petroleum Club

  Dallas Texans

  Dallas Tornado

  Damon’s Mound oil field

  Davis, Edgar B.

  Deep Rock Oil Company

  Deep Rock oil well

  DeGolyer, Everette

  DeLay, Tom

  Democratic Party, Texas conservatives and

  Depression, Great

  Dies, Martin

  di Portanova, Enrico “Ricky
,”

  di Portanova, Ljuba

  di Portanova, Ugo

  Dixiecrats

  Drexel Burnham Lambert

  Dunagan, Bill

  Dunn, David

  Du Pont family

  Durham, Joseph Idelbert (Doc Lloyd)

  Eastland, James

  East Texas oil fields

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  election of 1952 and

  natural gas bill and

  Nixon and

  El Dorado, Ark.

  elections:

  of 1914

  of 1936

  of 1940

  of 1944

  of 1948

  of 1952

  of 1954

  of 1960

  of 1968

  of 2004

  Electronic Data Systems (EDS)

  Ellenberger Lime sands

  El Paso Natural Gas

  Englehard Industries

  Enron

  Equitable Life Assurance Society of America

  Establishment in Texas Politics, The (Green)

  Estes oil field

  Everett, W. J.

  Exxon

  Facts Forum

  Fain, Ernest

  Farris, Lou, Jr.

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  HLH Products and

  Federal Power Commission (FPC)

  Federal Reserve

  Feldman. D.

  Ferber, Edna

  First National Bank of Chicago

  First National Bank of Dallas

  First National Bank of Fort Worth

  Flying Ginnie

  Flynn, John

  football

  Ford, Gerald R.

  Foreman, Percy

  Fort Worth, Tex.

  Bass family and

  Sundance Square in

  see also First National Bank of Fort Worth

  Fuermann, George

  Gadhafi, Muammar

  Gamal, Samia

  Garrett. P.

  Garrison, Jim

  gasoline

  Giant (Ferber)

  Glenn McCarthy Productions

  Golding, Dudley

  Goldman Sachs

  Graham, Billy

  Great Western United

  Green, George Norris

  Griffing, Olen

  Guffey, James

  Gulf Oil

  Gunther, John

  Halas, George

  Halbouty, Michel

  Hamill, Al

  Hamill, Curt

  Harris-Fulbright Natural Gas Bill (1956)

  Hendricks oil field

  Higgins, Patillo “Bud,”

  Hill, Al

  Hill, Margaret Hunt

  brother’s illness and

  Frania Tye and

  Hunt silver scheme and

  Hilton, Conrad

  Hirschkop, Phil

  Hiss, Alger

  HLH Products

  Holcombe, Oscar

  Holub, E. J.

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  hot oil dealing

  House of Representatives, U.S. see also Congress, U.S.; Senate, U.S.

  House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

  Houston, Tex.

  Astrodome in

  Bush and

  conservative movement and

  Cullens and

  di Portanovas and

  Hunt family and

  Jones-Cullen conflict in

  Kirby and

  Lakewood Country Club in

  McCarthy and

  medical centers in

  Murchison pipeline to

  oil wealth and growth of

  Second National Bank in

  Shamrock Hotel in

  West and

  World War II and

  Houston, University of

  Houston Oil Company

  Hovas, Sandy

  Hudson, E. J.

  Hughes, Howard, Jr.

  Hughes, Howard, Sr.

  Hugh Roy Cullen: A Story of American Opportunity (Kilman and Wright)

  Hull, Bert

  Humble Oil & Refining

  Conroe oil field and

  Louisiana leases and

  O’Connor oil field and

  Rabbs (Thompsons) Ridge purchase by

  Humble oil field

  Hunt, Caroline (daughter)

  Hunt, Caroline (daughter-in-law)

  Hunt, Ella

  Hunt, Frania Tye, see Lee, Frania Tye

  Hunt, Haroldina

  Hunt, Haroldson Lafayette

  “Arizona Slim” nickname of

  childhood and youth of

  cotton farming of

  death of

  death threats against

  early jobs of

  East Texas oil fields and

  El Dorado oil boom and

  first family of

  first oil well of

  Florida sojourn of

  gambling and card playing of

  Hassie Hunt’s illness and

  HLH Products and

  Joiner and

  Joiner’s lawsuit against

  Kennedy assassination and

  Lake and

  land holdings of

  McCarthy and

  marriages of

  mass media and

  natural gas industry and

  New London disaster and

  personality of

  politics and

  religion and

  second family of,

  274n second well of

  third family of

  Tyler as home of

  wealth of

  World War II and

  writings of

  Hunt, Haroldson Lafayette, Jr.(Hassie)

  Hunt, Hash

  Hunt, Helen

  Hunt, Herbert

  bankruptcy of

  HLH Products case and

  Ray Hunt and

  silver market and

  soybean market and

  sugar industry and

  wiretapping case against

  Hunt, Howard Lee

  Hunt, Hugh Lee

  Hunt, June

  Hunt, Lamar

  bankruptcy of

  football and

  HLH Products case and

  Kennedy assassination and

  Ray Hunt and

  silver market and

  soccer and

  Hunt, Lyda Bunker

  Frania Tye and

  Hunt, Margaret, see Hill, Margaret Hunt

  Hunt, Nelson Bunker

  bankruptcy of

  death threats against

  Frania Tye lawsuits and

  HLH Products case and

  horses as passion of

  landholdings of

  Libya and

  politics and

  Ray Hunt and

  silver market and

  soybean market and

  sugar industry and

  wealth of

  wiretapping case against

  Hunt, Ray Lee

  Frania Tye lawsuits and

  Reunion project of

  Hunt, Ruth Ray

  Hunt, Sherman

  Hunt, Swanee Hunt, Tom

  Hunt Energy Corporation

  Hunt family

  Hunt International Resources (HIRCO)

  Hunt Oil Company

  HLH Products and

  IRS and

  Ray Hunt and

  Hunt-Pickering No. 1 oil well

  Hurt, Harry

  Ickes, Harold

  Inch pipelines

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

  International Metals Investment Company (IMIC)

  Investors Diversified Services (IDS)

  Iran

  Iraq

  Irving, Tex.

  Jacobs, Harry

  Jaworski, Leon

  Jett Rink

  Johnson, Lady Bird

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  election of 1940 and

  election of 1948 and

  el
ection of 1952 and

  election of 1960 and

  Graham and

  Kennedy assassination and

  Marsh and

  natural gas industry and

  Joiner, Columbus Marion “Dad,”

  background of

  Hunt’s buyout of

  Hunt’s first meeting with

  Hunt sued by

  Laster and

  Lloyd and

  Jones, Jesse

  Jonsson, Erik

  J. R. Ewing

  Justice Department, U.S.

  Kansas, oil industry in

  Kansas City Chiefs

  Keck, William

  Kelly, Jon

  Kennedy, Edward M.

  Kennedy, John F.

  assassination of

  election of 1960 and

  Kent, William

  Kermit, Tex.

  Kerr, Jean

  Keystone oil field

  King, Gloria

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  King, Sheppard

  King Ranch

  Kirby, Allan P.

  Kirby, John Henry

  Armstrong and

  Kirby Lumber Company

  Kittrell, William

  Kleindeinst, Richard

  Korean War

  Kraft, Chester

  Kravchenko, Victor A.

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kuwait

  Lake, Pete

  Lake Village, Ark.

  Landry, Tom

  Laster, Ed

  Lathrop No. 1 oil well

  Lee, Frania Tye

  Lee, Thomas

  Liberty League

  Liberty Network

  Libya

  Liedtke, Hugh

  LIFE LINE

  Lilly, Bob

  Lloyd, Doc (Joseph Durham)

  Louisiana, oil industry in

  Lucas, Anthony

  Lucas No. 1 oil well

  Luling oil field

  lumber industry

  Lyle, John

  lynching

  Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library,

  290n

  MacArthur, Douglas

  McCann, Patrick

  McCarthy, Faustine Lee

  McCarthy, Glenn

  aviation and

  chemical plant of

  death of

  Edna Ferber and

  Equitable Life and

  Hughes and

  politics and

  Shamrock Hotel and

  McCarthy, Joseph R.

  McCarthy Oil & Gas

  McCloy, John

  McEntire, J. B.

  McGee, Robert

 

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