Claytie: The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter

Claytie: The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter
by Mike Cochran

Claytie: The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter
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Author: Mike Cochran
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN: 1585446343
Number of pages: 446
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Book Reviews of Claytie: The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter

Book Review: The best book I've ever read!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Claytie is the best book I've ever read. his life and beliefs are so parallel to mine it is scary. We even have the same birhday. Claytie's no BS West Texas demeanor really shows through and you get a sense of what the man stands for and how he reacts to different situations.

Summary of Claytie: The Roller-Coaster Life of a Texas Wildcatter

The native son of a distinguished West Texas family and a 1954 graduate of Texas A&M whose career and personal pursuits have ranged from farmer to insurance salesman to wildcatter, pipeline entrepreneur, rancher, banker, real estate mogul, big game hunter, conservationist, philanthropist, front-running gubernatorial candidate, and oil tycoon, Clayton W. Williams Jr. is by all measures one of a kind.

He has repeatedly been on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, yet more than once Claytie has also been on the verge of bankruptcy. This authorized biography captures the dimensions of his fascinating life: his determined work ethic and honesty; his passionate interests and rough-hewn style; his devotion to wife and constant companion Modesta and family; his all-in wildcatter bets and integrity-above-all payoff of debts; his patented gaffes in the "wildest, woolliest Texas governor's race ever" and their spotlighted consequences for the state and nation; and running through it all, both unrestrained celebrations and knees-on-the-ground repentance.

His many notable successes, his most admirable traits, as well as his most outrageous flaws are all portrayed in this book, often in Claytie's own words or in the extensive comments, revealing anecdotes, and first-person accounts of others, supplemented by family and business documents, as well as contemporary journalistic records.

This book tells it all, revealing one distinctive maverick who has left his boot prints all across Texas for 75 years.

Claytieisms

The wit and wisdom of Clayton W. Williams Jr.

"I ran my company like Christopher Columbus. When he left Spain, he didn't know where he was going. When he got here, he didn't know where he was. When he got back, he didn't know where he'd been. And he did it all on borrowed money."

"You can be a man of achievement and not be an arrogant snoot. . . . If I had to choose, I'd be on Bubba's side. Hell, I am Bubba!"

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