Author and local historian Matthew Day joined me for a Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra focusing on the mid-20th Century oil business around the Lubbock area.

Matthew Day podcasts: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/officialmatthewmdaybookspodcast

Links to books featured on this Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra (truncated titles listed):

• Fueling Victory at Home https://www.amazon.com/dp/1695719247
• Local Roots, Global Prospects  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096CKK93Y
• The Oil Empire That Wasn't Book I https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CC49LJPV
• The Oil Empire That Wasn't Book II https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CC4LDW5K
• A Cattle King on the Move https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BGNF1HPN
• Accidental Resurgence? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087LFRVJZ
• The Sale https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJBNRGJ4
• A Last Hurrah in Texas? https://www.amazon.com/dp/1695692144
• The Other Mastersons https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CC4LDW5L

Other books not featured in this interview:

Unknown Quantity https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096CNPFMR  (the story of Abilene oilman Vincent Perini, Jr., and how his interest in uranium mining in the 1950s helped move the nuclear industry from a single-use industry (weapons of war) to a broadbased industry that includes microwave ovens and X-ray machines)

The following venues do carry or have carried one or more of the 25 books at any point since the summer of 2022 (links to museum included, websites include contact info--call ahead to see if they have any of the books in stock):

• Pueblo Heritage Museum, Pueblo, CO
• History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
• Mineral Museum, Socorro, NM
• Scurry County Museum, Snyder, TX
• Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, TX
• Carlsbad Museum, Carlsbad, NM
• Western Heritage Museum and Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame, Hobbs, NM
• Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, Midland, TX

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