This week the movie adaptation of Tom Pendleton’s epic 1966 novel, The Iron Orchard, opens in theaters. His book tells the story of Jim McNeely’s rise from oil roughneck to wildcatter in mid-twentieth century Texas, and is based on the author’s experience in the oil business. Tom Pendleton was a pseudonym for Edmund…Continue Reading The Iron Orchard
The Iron Orchard
- Publication date February 20, 2019
- Categories: DeGolyer Library, Special Collections
- Categories: Iron Orchard, Lon Tinkle, Manuscripts, oil industry, Texana, Tom Pendleton