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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1978
Page
51
In the Permian Basin oil boom of the 1920s roughnecks and followers coined vivid terms. The piece catalogs colorful nicknames and roles from woolies to boomers, crumb bosses, rig hands, and toolies, tracing the jargon and its playful, hard-edged slang.
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