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Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
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Description of Series
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A Guide to the Wesley Gibson Gish Papers,
1923-1977
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Creator: |
Gish, Wesley Gibson |
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Title: |
Wesley Gibson Gish
Papers |
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Dates: |
1923-1977 |
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Abstract: |
The papers document
the career and life of Wesley Gibson Gish (1896-1985), a petroleum geologist
and oil company executive. |
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Accession No.: |
87-208; 87-253; 87-254 |
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Extent: |
1 ft. 4 in. |
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Language: |
Materials are written in
English. |
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Repository: |
Dolph Briscoe Center for American
History,The University of Texas at
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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.
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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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Access Restrictions
Unrestricted access.
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Subjects (Persons) |
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Gish, Harold S. |
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Gish, Wesley Gibson—Archives. |
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Gish, Wesley Gibson Jr. |
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Gressley, Gene M., 1931- |
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Kelsey, Dana |
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Phillips, Henry |
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Rife, Byron |
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Ryals Family |
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Seeligson, Arthur |
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Sinclair, H. F. |
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Tatum, J. L. |
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Vance, Thaddeus B. |
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Subjects (Organizations) |
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American Association of Petroleum
Geologists. |
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Deep Rock Oil and Refining
Company |
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Rio Grande Valley Gas Company |
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Sinclair Oil Corporation. |
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Transwestern Oil Company |
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Subjects |
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Coloma Creek Oil Field |
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East Texas Oil Field |
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Four Corners Oil Field |
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Hillingdon Ranch |
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Indians of North America --
Housing. |
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Marathon Basin Oil Field |
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Oil and gas |
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Oil fields |
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Paradox Basin Oil Field |
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Petroleum industry and trade |
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Petroleum -- Texas -- Texas
Panhandle. |
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Schreiner Ranch |
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Places |
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Four Corners
Region |
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Kerr County
(Tex.) |
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Marathon Basin
(Tex.) |
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Pecos County
(Tex.) |
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Refugio County
(Tex.) |
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Texas, East |
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Texas, West |
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Wesley Gibson Gish Papers, 1923-1977,
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at
Austin.
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s "History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light" project, 2009-2011.
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Inventory: |
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| 2K206 |
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Personal Materials: |
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Biographical items,
1985 and undated: |
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Correspondence: |
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Materials related to donation of papers,
1997-1975 and undated |
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Family and friends,
1981, 1934, 1973-1975 |
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Oil business materials: |
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Oil company executive: |
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Sinclair Oil and Gas Company,
1929-1933 and undated |
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Transwestern Oil Company,
1937-1945 |
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| 2K207 |
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Independent consultant: |
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Terrell County, Texas,
1927, 1928, 1959 |
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Coloma Creek, Calhoun County, Texas,
1940-1941 and undated |
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Ryals Estate and National Drilling Company,
1954-1958 |
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Ingram Oil and Refining Company,
1954-1955 and undated |
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Garfield County, Oklahoma,
1950-1960 and undated |
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Four Corners (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico,
Utah): |
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Shell Oil legal suit,
1951-1962 and undated |
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Rio Grande Valley Gas Company,
1964-1968 and undated |
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| 2K208 |
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Costal States Gas Producing Company,
1966-1967 and undated |
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Vance Gas Properties,
1966-1972 |
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Small projects,
1965-1968 |
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Business card,
1962 |
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Publications, organizations, and other professional
activities,
1934-1936 and undated |
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History and future of the oil industry,
1974-1977 and undated |
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Hunting trips,
1936-1939 and undated |
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Other materials,
1931, 1967, and undated |
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| 3Y98 |
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Photographs: |
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Negatives and prints: |
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California trip,
1923 |
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Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle,
1923 |
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Petty Geophysical Engineering Company, deer and
turkey hunts, Texas,
ca. 1924-1925 |
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Marathon Basin, Del Rio, Texas, area,
[Click for images] 1927 |
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Sinclair Oil group at [Lathrop?] Discovery Well,
[Click for images] 1931 |
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Petty Geophysical Engineering Company, deer and
turkey hunts, Schreiner Y. O. Ranch, Kerry County, Texas,
1938 |
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Petty Geophysical Engineering Company, deer and
turkey hunts,
[Click for images] 1939-1940 |
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Other images,
ca. 1935, 1951 |
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| 3S225 |
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Oversize prints: |
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Aerial photograph of Guadalupe Mountains in West
Texas |
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| 2.116/OD2236 |
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Oversize maps: |
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Oil well locations, Coloma Creek area of Calhoun
County, Texas,
1940 |
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Geologic, of Southern Nowata County, Oklahoma,
1954 |
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W. M. Carter Land Co. Subdivision, Thomas Ranch,
Calhoun County,
1919 |
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| OD 1277 |
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Journal-guide to Texas Oil, from Oil & Gas
Journal,
1951 |
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| 2.325/V32 |
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County Correlator for Texas Oil, from Oil & Gas
Journal,
1954 |
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Four Corners Field, St. Clair County (Michigan),
undated |
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Portions of Casco, China, Ira and Cottrellville
Townships and Four Corners Field (Michigan),
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Coloma Creek Area, Calhoun County, Texas,
1940 |
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Subsurface, Coloma Creek and Magnolia Beach Fields,
Calhoun County, Texas,
1949 |
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Weaver Pasture of Walter Schreiner Shooting Preserve,
1938 |
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Col-Tex Oil Inc. et al, Ryals and “Pearson” Leases,
Ryals Estate Lands, Old Refugio Field, Refugio County, Texas,
undated
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Portion of Baldwin County, Alabama,
[1945?] |
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Oversize, general: |
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Diagrammatic layout plan of National Drilling Company,
Proposed Field Compressor Station, Refugio, Texas,
1957
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Ledger Sheets, National Drilling Company, Ryals Estate
and Ryals-Pearson Leases,
1951-1960 |
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Oil and Gas Lease: Transwestern Oil Company and Jay
and Mary Addie Hubbard, Calhoun County, Texas,
1941 |
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| 2.116/OD2236 |
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Graph of “Insoluble residue studies and correlations
of the Arbuckle Group of southern Oklahoma,”
undated |
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| 2.325/V32 |
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Audio: |
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Cassette tape of Donald Reese talking to the
Mississippi Geological Society on the development of the East Texas Oil Field,
1975
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