urn:taro:utexas.cah.01288 A Guide to the Wesley Gibson Gish Papers, 1923-1977 Original EAD encoding by Lauren Algee according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. October 2009 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Gish, Wesley Gibson Wesley Gibson Gish Papers 1923-1977 Materials are written in English. 87-208; 87-253; 87-254 1 ft. 4 in. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin The papers document the career and life of Wesley Gibson Gish (1896-1985), a petroleum geologist and oil company executive. Biographical Note

Wesley Gibson Gish (1896-1985) was a petroleum geologist and oil company executive. Gish’s worked as a field geologist at White Eagle Oil and Refining Company from 1922-1924. He then moved to Sinclair Oil and Gas Company from 1925-1936 where he worked as Chief Geologist, Division Superintendent and Vice-President. His primary responsibility at Sinclair was overseeing leases and properties in the East Texas oil field from the Tyler, Texas office. He served as Transwestern Oil Company’s Vice-President from 1937-1946 and as Vice-President of Deep Rock Oil and Refining Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma for three years. Gish continued his work in the oil and gas industry as an independent consultant from 1951-1967.

Gish was a charter member of the Kansas Geological Society and the American Institute of Professional Geologists and a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the American Geological Association and the South Texas Geological Society.

 Scope and Contents

The papers document Gish’s career, his work in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and his personal life. The collection is rich in its coverage of the Texas oil business in the 1930s. Included are materials on company policies; employee and public relations; research notes, field notes, and well reports on oil fields in the Southwest; legal documents, leases, and other material from Gish's lawsuit against Shell; photographs of Texas oil fields and executive turkey hunts; maps, plates, and printed material on oil fields.

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 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Gish, Harold S. Gish, Wesley Gibson—Archives. Gish, Wesley Gibson Jr. Gressley, Gene M., 1931- Kelsey, Dana Phillips, Henry Rife, Byron Ryals Family Seeligson, Arthur Sinclair, H. F. Tatum, J. L. Vance, Thaddeus B. Subjects (Organizations) American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Deep Rock Oil and Refining Company Rio Grande Valley Gas Company Sinclair Oil Corporation. Transwestern Oil Company Subjects Coloma Creek Oil Field East Texas Oil Field Four Corners Oil Field Hillingdon Ranch Indians of North America -- Housing. Marathon Basin Oil Field Oil and gas Oil fields Paradox Basin Oil Field Petroleum industry and trade Petroleum -- Texas -- Texas Panhandle. Schreiner Ranch Places Four Corners Region Kerr County (Tex.) Marathon Basin (Tex.) Pecos County (Tex.) Refugio County (Tex.) Texas, East Texas, West Preferred Citation

Wesley Gibson Gish Papers, 1923-1977, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory: 2K206 Personal Materials: 2K206 Biographical items, 1985 and undated: 2K206 Correspondence: 2K206 Materials related to donation of papers, 1997-1975 and undated 2K206 Family and friends, 1981, 1934, 1973-1975 2K206 Oil business materials: 2K206 Oil company executive: 2K206 Sinclair Oil and Gas Company, 1931-1933 and undated 2K206 Transwestern Oil Company, 1937-1945 2K206 Independent consultant: 2K206 Terrell County, Texas, 1927, 1928, 1959 2K206 Coloma Creek, Calhoun County, Texas, 1940-1941 and undated 2K206 Ryals Estate and National Drilling Company, 1954-1958 2K206 Ingram Oil and Refining Company, 1954-1955 and undated 2K206 Garfield County, Oklahoma, 1950-1960 and undated 2K206 Four Corners (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah): 2K206 Shell Oil legal suit, 1951-1962 and undated 2K206 Rio Grande Valley Gas Company, 1964-1968 and undated 2K208 Costal States Gas Producing Company, 1966-1967 and undated 2K208 Vance Gas Properties, 1966-1972 2K208 Small projects, 1965-1968 2K208 Business card, 1962 2K208 Publications, organizations, and other professional activities, 1934-1936 and undated 2K208 History and future of the oil industry, 1974-1977 and undated 2K208 Hunting trips, 1936-1939 and undated 2K208 Other materials, 1931, 1967, and undated 3Y98 Photographs: 3Y98 Negatives and prints: 3Y98 California trip, 1923 3Y98 Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle, 1923 3Y98 Petty Geophysical Engineering Company, deer and turkey hunts, Texas, ca. 1924-1925 3Y98 Marathon Basin, Del Rio, Texas, area, 1927

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 3Y98 Sinclair Oil group at [Lathrop?] Discovery Well, 1931

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 3Y98 Petty Geophysical Engineering Company, deer and turkey hunts, Schreiner Y. O. Ranch, Kerry County, Texas, 1938 3Y98 Petty Geophysical Engineering Company, deer and turkey hunts, 1939-1940

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 3Y98 Other images, ca. 1935, 1951 3S225 Oversize prints: 3S225 Aerial photograph of Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas 2.116/OD2236 Oversize maps: 2.116/OD2236 Oil well locations, Coloma Creek area of Calhoun County, Texas, 1940 2.116/OD2236 Geologic, of Southern Nowata County, Oklahoma, 1954 2.116/OD2236 W. M. Carter Land Co. Subdivision, Thomas Ranch, Calhoun County, 1919 OD 1277 Journal-guide to Texas Oil, from Oil & Gas Journal, 1951 2.325/V32 County Correlator for Texas Oil, from Oil & Gas Journal, 1954 2.325/V32 Four Corners Field, St. Clair County (Michigan), undated 2.325/V32 Portions of Casco, China, Ira and Cottrellville Townships and Four Corners Field (Michigan), undated 2.325/V32 Coloma Creek Area, Calhoun County, Texas, 1940 2.325/V32 Subsurface, Coloma Creek and Magnolia Beach Fields, Calhoun County, Texas, 1949 2.325/V32 Weaver Pasture of Walter Schreiner Shooting Preserve, 1938 2.325/V32 Col-Tex Oil Inc. et al, Ryals and “Pearson” Leases, Ryals Estate Lands, Old Refugio Field, Refugio County, Texas, undated [2] 2.325/V32 Portion of Baldwin County, Alabama, [1945?] 2.325/V32 Oversize, general: 2.325/V32 Diagrammatic layout plan of National Drilling Company, Proposed Field Compressor Station, Refugio, Texas, 1957 [2] 2.325/V32 Ledger Sheets, National Drilling Company, Ryals Estate and Ryals-Pearson Leases, 1951-1960 2.325/V32 Oil and Gas Lease: Transwestern Oil Company and Jay and Mary Addie Hubbard, Calhoun County, Texas, 1941 2.116/OD2236 Graph of “Insoluble residue studies and correlations of the Arbuckle Group of southern Oklahoma,” undated 2.325/V32 Audio: 2.325/V32 Cassette tape of Donald Reese talking to the Mississippi Geological Society on the development of the East Texas Oil Field, 1975 [with transcript]